Malcolm Rowe wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:05:52AM +0200, Mathias Weinert wrote:
> > * tools/hook-scripts/mailer/mailer.py
> > - new option 'to_addr_split_char' added which allows to use another character but the default whitespaces to separate different mail addresses
>
> I don't know much about mailer.py, so this may be a silly question, but it
> might help reviewers if you could summarise why this is a useful feature.
I summarised it in my original post. But you are right, I should have
summarised it again.
>
> Why would someone ever need to use a non-whitespace separator to provide
> a list of email addresses?
>
This is usefull for using additional name information in the mail
addresses. Example:
to_addr_split_char = ,
to_addr = "The great Wallace" <wallace@atanyaddress>, "little Grommit" <grommit@propablyatthesameaddress>
This was the simple example (which doesn't make so much sense).
A more reasonable example is the following one:
[defaults]
from_addr = %(author)s
[maps]
from_addr = [mail_addresses]
to_addr = [mail_addresses]
[mail_addresses]
wallace = "SVN: Wallace" <wallace@atanyaddress>
grommit = "SVN: Grommit" <grommit@propablyatthesameaddress>
[config_for_wallace]
to_addr = wallace
...
With this I at least don't use the comma as separator but don't
use the whitespaces any more and am therefor able to use one set
of mail addresses containing blanks which I use for the to_addr
as well as for the from_addr. So I have the mail address only
once in the config file and the mails that are sent can easily
be identified in the mail client by the address which starts with
'SVN: '.
For me this is a really usefull thing.
> > - it's now possible to use capital letters in option values which will be passed through a map
>
> This doesn't look like it's related to the change above, so you're
> probably better off sending two separate patches (unless the two changes
> really are related).
>
You are right, they aren't related at all. I once posted them
together at it were only little changes - and I agree that I should
have sent them separatly. I'll do so next time.
Mathias
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Received on Thu May 4 08:53:43 2006