b4 send: how to selectively suppress Cc?

b4 send: how to selectively suppress Cc?

[Kevin Hilman]

How do I pursuade b4 send to selectively *not* send emails to some of
the emails it finds in to/from/sob etc?

e.g. due to job changes, there's an email address I know is going to
bounce, but b4 send is still finding it and adding it to the Cc list.

Right now the only way I'm finding to do this is to use
--no-trailer-to-cc and then manually list all the emails I actually want
with --to and --cc

If there's not an existing way to do this, might be nice to be able to
add a Suppress-Cc: to the cover letter along with the other To:/Cc:
fields there?

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: b4 send: how to selectively suppress Cc?

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 03:58:10PM GMT, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> How do I pursuade b4 send to selectively *not* send emails to some of
> the emails it finds in to/from/sob etc?

You should be able to accomplish this with b4.email-exclude:

    A list of addresses to always exclude from the message recipients. Expects a
    comma-separated list with shell-style globbing. E.g.:

    email-exclude = *@codeaurora.org, *@obsolete.example.com

Let me know if this doesn't work.

-K

Re: b4 send: how to selectively suppress Cc?

[Kevin Hilman]

Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 03:58:10PM GMT, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> How do I pursuade b4 send to selectively *not* send emails to some of
>> the emails it finds in to/from/sob etc?
>
> You should be able to accomplish this with b4.email-exclude:
>
>     A list of addresses to always exclude from the message recipients. Expects a
>     comma-separated list with shell-style globbing. E.g.:
>
>     email-exclude = *@codeaurora.org, *@obsolete.example.com
>
> Let me know if this doesn't work.

It works perfectly, thanks!

I guess I missed it because I didn't think to look at the `b4 ty` docs
for email settings while getting `b4 send` to work.  Maybe an item for
your TODO list is to add a pointer to those settings in the `b4 send`
doc?

Anyways, thanks for the tip and for the work on this really useful too.

Kevin

P.S. I just discovered the `b4 prep` feature of creating/tracking a
     branch from a sent series[1], and it's great!  Exactly what I
     needed for taking over a series from someone else.  Thanks!

[1] https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/contributor/prep.html#creating-a-branch-from-a-sent-series