From: markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 06:22:53 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Improve wording and more description in man page spost(8)
X-Git-Tag: mmh-0.2-RC1~20
X-Git-Url: http://git.marmaro.de/?p=mmh;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ce0de2d6a9d308834a10b058ef850473e78976aa

Improve wording and more description in man page spost(8)
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diff --git a/man/spost.man8 b/man/spost.man8
index 6a3d757..c4558be 100644
--- a/man/spost.man8
+++ b/man/spost.man8
@@ -43,13 +43,17 @@ searches the `To:', `Cc:', `Bcc:', `Dcc',
 `Fcc:', and `Resent\-xxx:' header lines of the specified
 message for destination addresses,
 .PP
-.B Sendmail
-is called witch all recipients, expect these from Bcc-field
-.br
+.B Spost
+invokes
+.B sendmail
+with all recipients, except the blind ones (`Bcc:'),
+as command line arguments:
+.RS
 .B sendmail
 .B \-i
 .RB [ \-v ]
 .I recipients ...
+.RE
 .PP
 If a `Bcc:' field is encountered, its addresses will be used for
 delivery, and the `Bcc:' field will be removed from the message
@@ -62,15 +66,28 @@ invokes
 to send the Bcc message.)
 .PP
 If a `Dcc' field is encountered, the field will be removed
-befor sending the mail.
+before sending the message. The Dcc recipient will receive the
+message as well, but without being mentioned in the recipient
+headers.
+.PP
+In contrast to Bcc, the Dcc recipient receives the
+same original message as all the sighted reciepients, whereas
+the Bcc recipient receives a special, newly constructed message,
+which contains the original message as an attachment.
+.PP
+Bcc is probably a good choice for a message with both sighted
+and invisible reciepients (e.g. inform someone privately about
+the message being sent). Dcc is probably a good choice for
+a message to a group of only invisible recipients (e.g. invite
+to a party).
 .PP
 The `Aliasfile' profile entry
 can be used to specify one or more files that spost
 should take aliases from.
 .PP
-Aliasing is done on any address-field will.
-The address-fields are `From:', `To:', `Bcc:', `Dcc'
-or rather the `Resent\-xxx:' versions of this fields.
+Aliasing is done on any address field. Those are:
+`From:', `To:', `Cc:', `Bcc:' and `Dcc',
+or the `Resent\-xxx:' versions of these fields.
 .PP
 The
 .B \-verbose
@@ -109,10 +126,9 @@ in messages sent with
 .BR dist .
 .PP
 .B Spost
-takes care about full qualitfy addresses,
-in every address-field.
-Your MTA is supposed to care to add the correct domain,
-if there is no after aliasing.
+tries to fully qualify the addresses in every address field.
+Your MTA is supposed to add the correct domain,
+if there is none after aliasing.
 .PP
 The draft is filed to the folders in the Fcc headers by
 .BR refile .
@@ -149,3 +165,15 @@ None
 
 .SH BUGS
 None
+
+.SH HISTORY
+The
+.B spost
+in mmh-0.1 used
+.BR sendmail 's
+.I -t
+flag to have
+.B sendmail
+extract the recipients from the message headers. Now, it
+passes the recipients as command line arguments. This provides
+better compatibility to other sendmail implementations.