From: Michael Adam Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:42:06 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: send individual mails to recipients Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <491B0D9B.7080306@viscovery.net> 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: > > - The load multiplies for the sender (typically a repository server). This is right. > - And wouldn't each recipient get a new Message-Id? This would break > threading if further communication takes place among the recipients. My idea was that different recipients have different threading anyways. OK, threading for multiple recipients can be conserved with group replies. I thought that usually you specify a single mailing list as recipient. My use case is that I have additional recipients that do not necessarily want to be seen as recipients on the mailing list that is specified as the primary recipient. > But I may be wrong on both accounts. Your concerns are surely valid. Maybe it would be useful to make this optional? Thanks for your comments! Cheers - Michael -- Michael Adam SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.SerNet.DE, mailto: Info @ SerNet.DE