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Re: [Nmh-workers] Minor gripe about send man page
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David Levine |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Minor gripe about send man page |
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Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:10:36 -0400 |
Norm wrote:
> The send man page says "Most of the features attributed to send are actually
> performed by post.". That leaves me guessing as to the exact division of
> responsibility between send and post.
>
> I'm guessing, but am not certain, that the answer is in the next paragraph
> about mhbuild. I.e, the only thing that send does is whatever mhbuild does.
In some cases, mhbuild is all that send does. But send can do
some optional things as well, notably setting up OAUTH
parameters, supporting sendfrom, and splitting the message (with
-split). All of those are mentioned in the man page.
David