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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: send individual
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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