From ce0de2d6a9d308834a10b058ef850473e78976aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: markus schnalke Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 08:22:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Improve wording and more description in man page spost(8) --- man/spost.man8 | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) 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. -- 1.7.10.4