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Re: [Nmh-workers] Minor gripe about send man page
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norm |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Minor gripe about send man page |
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Fri, 21 Oct 2016 08:33:58 -0700 |
David Levine <address@hidden> writes:
>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.
But it isn't clear, at least to me, which of those things send does
and which post does. As I said, this is a minor gripe.
Norman Shapiro