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Re: [PATCH v2] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: send individual mails to recipients

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Nov 12, 2008, 17:08 UTC
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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
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