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Re: [Nmh-workers] merge spost into post
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David Levine |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] merge spost into post |
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Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:40:41 -0500 |
Ken wrote:
> Maybe "sendmail/smtp" and "sendmail/pipe"? With just
> "sendmail" meaning "sendmail/smtp"? To me that's a
> little clearer.
I like those. I just had some quality airplane time and was
able to wrap up the addition of "pipe". It's committed. I
got your message after, I'll change the names this week.
spost is still there so nothing should be broken.
> - It occurs to me that some of these things should be
> overrideable via mh_profile (like the path to sendmail).
> Just saying :-)
And an -mts command line option would help with the
migration away from spost, which could then just exec "post
-mts sendmail/pipe".
> - It should be made clear in the man pages that in the
> "pipe" or "sendmail/pipe" case that it's impossible to
> set the envelope-from address.
Is what's already in the send(1) man page sufficient, starting
with "When using SMTP for mail submission?"
> - Are we going to have some notification at runtime for
> those people who put "spost" in their postproc a couple
> of decades ago for some long-forgotten reason? :-)
That could go in the neutered spost, just before it execs
post.
David