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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: send individual mails to recipients
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:08:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <491B0D9B.7080306@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1L0Iv1-00BwsF-Jh@intern.SerNet.DE>

Michael Adam schrieb:
> This changes the behaviour of post-receive-email when a list of recipients
> (separated by commas) is specified as hooks.mailinglist. With this modification,
> an individual mail is sent out for each recipient entry in the list, instead
> of sending a single mail with all the recipients in the "To: " field.

I don't think this is well-behaved:

- The load multiplies for the sender (typically a repository server).

- And wouldn't each recipient get a new Message-Id? This would break
threading if further communication takes place among the recipients.

But I may be wrong on both accounts.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-12 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-12 16:50 [PATCH v2] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: send individual mails to recipients Michael Adam
2008-11-12 17:08 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2008-11-12 17:42   ` Michael Adam
2008-11-12 18:01     ` Junio C Hamano

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