From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: send individual mails to recipients Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:01:10 -0800 Message-ID: <7vbpwkq0wp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <491B0D9B.7080306@viscovery.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johannes Sixt , git@vger.kernel.org, Andy Parkins To: Michael Adam X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 12 19:04:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L0K4H-0003qF-VH for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:03:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752531AbYKLSCc (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:02:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752504AbYKLSCb (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:02:31 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:45687 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751438AbYKLSCb (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:02:31 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BFE7C543; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:02:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 540927C517; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:01:17 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Michael Adam's message of "Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:42:06 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 12312C62-B0E4-11DD-9A88-9CEDC82D7133-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael Adam writes: > Johannes Sixt wrote: >> 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: > ... > Your concerns are surely valid. > Maybe it would be useful to make this optional? What benefit could anybody possibly get by making this optional? If you do not want to show multiple names on To: header to the mail recipients, there already is a well-known solution, and it is called (surprise!) mailing list ;-)