Merge branch 'rr/imap-send-unconfuse-from-line'

* rr/imap-send-unconfuse-from-line:
  imap-send: Remove limitation on message body

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
index 6cafbe2ec1..57aba42e66 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
 This command uploads a mailbox generated with 'git format-patch'
 into an IMAP drafts folder.  This allows patches to be sent as
 other email is when using mail clients that cannot read mailbox
-files directly.
+files directly. The command also works with any general mailbox
+in which emails have the fields "From", "Date", and "Subject" in
+that order.
 
 Typical usage is something like:
 
@@ -122,12 +124,6 @@ Thunderbird in particular is known to be problematic.  Thunderbird
 users may wish to visit this web page for more information:
   http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email
 
-
-BUGS
-----
-Doesn't handle lines starting with "From " in the message body.
-
-
 Author
 ------
 Derived from isync 1.0.1 by Mike McCormack.
diff --git a/imap-send.c b/imap-send.c
index 7107923a39..9d0097ca02 100644
--- a/imap-send.c
+++ b/imap-send.c
@@ -1431,8 +1431,14 @@ static int count_messages(struct msg_data *msg)
 
 	while (1) {
 		if (!prefixcmp(p, "From ")) {
+			p = strstr(p+5, "\nFrom: ");
+			if (!p) break;
+			p = strstr(p+7, "\nDate: ");
+			if (!p) break;
+			p = strstr(p+7, "\nSubject: ");
+			if (!p) break;
+			p += 10;
 			count++;
-			p += 5;
 		}
 		p = strstr(p+5, "\nFrom ");
 		if (!p)