From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:01:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: send individual mails to recipients Message-ID: <7vbpwkq0wp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: 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 ;-)