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[PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Clarify use of Gmail for emailing patches

From Eddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Clarify use of Gmail for emailing patches
Date 2015-11-06 07:30 +0100
Message-ID <qrIH7-S8-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Clarify that Gmail can be used to send patches, provided you use Gmail
as a server and avoid the Web UI.

Signed-off-by: Eddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org>
---
 Documentation/email-clients.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
index aba85b39a400..ca38031c4762 100644
--- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt
+++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt
@@ -250,7 +250,8 @@ Works.  Use "Insert file..." or external editor.
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Gmail (Web GUI)
 
-Does not work for sending patches.
+Gmail works fine for sending patches provided you do NOT use the web interface
+and just use Gmail as an IMAP server with a text based email client.
 
 Gmail web client converts tabs to spaces automatically.
 
-- 
2.6.2

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[PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Clarify use of Gmail for emailing patches Eddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org> - 2015-11-06 07:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: Clarify use of Gmail for emailing  patches Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2015-11-11 18:30 +0100

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