diff --git a/Documentation/git-imap-send.adoc b/Documentation/git-imap-send.adoc
index 538b91afc0..fab3d82e02 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-imap-send.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-imap-send.adoc
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-imap-send - Send a collection of patches from stdin to an IMAP folder
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [synopsis]
-git imap-send [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl] [(--folder|-f) <folder>]
+git imap-send [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl] [--[no-]draft] [(--folder|-f) <folder>]
 git imap-send --list
 
 
@@ -55,6 +55,13 @@ OPTIONS
 	using libcurl.  Ignored if Git was built with the NO_OPENSSL option
 	set.
 
+`--draft`::
+`--no-draft`::
+	Mark uploaded messages with the IMAP `\Draft` flag. The default is `--no-draft`.
++
+With libcurl, `--draft` requires version 8.13.0 or later.
+Older libcurl still uploads the message but cannot set the flag.
+
 `--list`::
 	Run the IMAP LIST command to output a list of all the folders present.
 
diff --git a/git-curl-compat.h b/git-curl-compat.h
index dccdd4d6e5..032aaf7126 100644
--- a/git-curl-compat.h
+++ b/git-curl-compat.h
@@ -67,4 +67,12 @@
 #define GIT_CURL_HAVE_CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPCNT
 #endif
 
+/**
+ * CURLOPT_UPLOAD_FLAGS and CURLULFLAG_* were added in 8.13.0,
+ * released in April 2025.
+ */
+#if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x080D00
+#define GIT_CURL_HAVE_CURLOPT_UPLOAD_FLAGS
+#endif
+
 #endif
diff --git a/imap-send.c b/imap-send.c
index cfd6a5120c..7a50f9e5ab 100644
--- a/imap-send.c
+++ b/imap-send.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #include "setup.h"
 #include "strbuf.h"
 #ifdef USE_CURL_FOR_IMAP_SEND
+#include "git-curl-compat.h"
 #include "http.h"
 #endif
 
@@ -49,10 +50,11 @@
 static int verbosity;
 static int list_folders;
 static int use_curl = USE_CURL_DEFAULT;
+static int opt_draft;
 static char *opt_folder;
 
 static char const * const imap_send_usage[] = {
-	N_("git imap-send [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl] [(--folder|-f) <folder>] < <mbox>"),
+	N_("git imap-send [-v] [-q] [--[no-]curl] [--[no-]draft] [(--folder|-f) <folder>] < <mbox>"),
 	"git imap-send --list",
 	NULL
 };
@@ -60,6 +62,7 @@ static char const * const imap_send_usage[] = {
 static struct option imap_send_options[] = {
 	OPT__VERBOSITY(&verbosity),
 	OPT_BOOL(0, "curl", &use_curl, "use libcurl to communicate with the IMAP server"),
+	OPT_BOOL(0, "draft", &opt_draft, "mark uploaded messages with the IMAP \\Draft flag"),
 	OPT_STRING('f', "folder", &opt_folder, "folder", "specify the IMAP folder"),
 	OPT_BOOL(0, "list", &list_folders, "list all folders on the IMAP server"),
 	OPT_END()
@@ -1416,7 +1419,8 @@ static int imap_store_msg(struct imap_store *ctx, struct strbuf *msg)
 
 	box = ctx->name;
 	prefix = !strcmp(box, "INBOX") ? "" : ctx->prefix;
-	ret = imap_exec_m(ctx, &cb, "APPEND \"%s%s\" ", prefix, box);
+	ret = imap_exec_m(ctx, &cb, "APPEND \"%s%s\" %s", prefix, box,
+			  opt_draft ? "(\\Draft) " : "");
 	imap->caps = imap->rcaps;
 	if (ret != DRV_OK)
 		return ret;
@@ -1718,6 +1722,13 @@ static int curl_append_msgs_to_imap(struct imap_server_conf *server,
 
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READDATA, &msgbuf);
 
+	if (opt_draft) {
+#ifdef GIT_CURL_HAVE_CURLOPT_UPLOAD_FLAGS
+		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD_FLAGS, CURLULFLAG_DRAFT);
+#else
+		warning("--draft requires libcurl 8.13.0 or later");
+#endif
+	}
 	fprintf(stderr, "Sending %d message%s to %s folder...\n",
 		total, (total != 1) ? "s" : "", server->folder);
 	while (1) {