Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] imap-send: correctly report "host" when using "tunnel"

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 01:26:10PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I think you might be right that people might rely on this after having
> > discovered this undocumented interaction by accident.
> >
> > But I also think that the lack of questions about how to get imap-send's
> > tunnel mode to work with auth helpers (at least I couldn't find any
> > on-list), which is what you'd run into if you went by the documentation
> > & were trying to get htat ot work, is a pretty good sign that this may
> > be either entirely unused by anyone, or at best very obscure.
> 
> I actually think the misconfiguration (from documentation's point of
> view) Peff is taking advantage of is a behaviour you would naturally
> expect, if you do not read the documentation but are merely aware of
> the presence of .host and .tunnel and guess what these do. 

Just to be clear, I am not taking advantage of anything. I do not use
imap-send myself, because a much better solution is to have a decent
mail client that can access both imap and local maildirs. ;)

I was only trying to offer some perspective as a general imap-tunnel
user.

-Peff