On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 01:26:10PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> 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
