diff --git a/bin/core/imag/src/main.rs b/bin/core/imag/src/main.rs
index f6ae33f1..3cd21ee3 100644
--- a/bin/core/imag/src/main.rs
+++ b/bin/core/imag/src/main.rs
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ use std::io::ErrorKind;
 use std::collections::BTreeMap;
 
 use walkdir::WalkDir;
-use clap::{Arg, AppSettings, SubCommand};
+use clap::{Arg, ArgMatches, AppSettings, SubCommand};
 use toml::Value;
 use toml_query::read::TomlValueReadExt;
 
@@ -197,11 +197,13 @@ fn main() {
             // Get all given arguments and further subcommands to pass to
             // the imag-<> binary
             // Providing no arguments is OK, and is therefore ignored here
-            let subcommand_args : Vec<&str> = match scmd.values_of("") {
-                Some(values) => values.collect(),
+            let mut subcommand_args : Vec<String> = match scmd.values_of("") {
+                Some(values) => values.map(String::from).collect(),
                 None => Vec::new()
             };
 
+            forward_commandline_arguments(&matches, &mut subcommand_args);
+
             let subcommand = String::from(subcommand);
             let subcommand = aliases.get(&subcommand).cloned().unwrap_or(subcommand);
 
@@ -296,3 +298,52 @@ fn fetch_aliases(rt: &Runtime) -> Result<BTreeMap<String, String>, String> {
     }
 }
 
+fn forward_commandline_arguments(m: &ArgMatches, scmd: &mut Vec<String>) {
+    let push = |flag: Option<&str>, val_name: &str, m: &ArgMatches, v: &mut Vec<String>| {
+        let _ = m
+            .value_of(val_name)
+            .map(|val| {
+                let flag = format!("--{}", flag.unwrap_or(val_name));
+                v.insert(0, String::from(val));
+                v.insert(0, flag);
+            });
+    };
+
+    push(Some("verbose"),
+         Runtime::arg_verbosity_name(), m , scmd);
+
+    push(Some("debug"),
+         Runtime::arg_debugging_name(), m , scmd);
+
+    push(Some("no-color"),
+         Runtime::arg_no_color_output_name(), m , scmd);
+
+    push(Some("config"),
+         Runtime::arg_config_name(), m , scmd);
+
+    push(Some("override-config"),
+         Runtime::arg_config_override_name(), m , scmd);
+
+    push(Some("rtp"),
+         Runtime::arg_runtimepath_name(), m , scmd);
+
+    push(Some("store"),
+         Runtime::arg_storepath_name(), m , scmd);
+
+    push(Some("editor"),
+         Runtime::arg_editor_name(), m , scmd);
+
+    push(Some("generate-commandline-completion"),
+         Runtime::arg_generate_compl(), m , scmd);
+
+    push(None , Runtime::arg_logdest_name()                         , m , scmd);
+    push(None , Runtime::arg_override_module_logging_setting_name() , m , scmd);
+    push(None , Runtime::arg_override_trace_logging_format()        , m , scmd);
+    push(None , Runtime::arg_override_debug_logging_format()        , m , scmd);
+    push(None , Runtime::arg_override_info_logging_format()         , m , scmd);
+    push(None , Runtime::arg_override_warn_logging_format()         , m , scmd);
+    push(None , Runtime::arg_override_error_logging_format()        , m , scmd);
+
+
+}
+
diff --git a/doc/src/09020-changelog.md b/doc/src/09020-changelog.md
index b1bbde88..469f6341 100644
--- a/doc/src/09020-changelog.md
+++ b/doc/src/09020-changelog.md
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ This section contains the changelog from the last release to the next release.
 * New
     * `libimagentrygps` was introduced
     * `imag-grep` was introduced
+    * The `imag` command now passes all arguments properly to the called
+      subcommand
 * Fixed bugs
     * The config loading in `libimagrt`
     [was fixed](http://git.imag-pim.org/imag/commit/?id=9193d50f96bce099665d2eb716bcaa29a8d9b8ff).