BTW- I've experienced the same problem with Ant 1.4.1 as well. I think this is a problem that's been around for a while... just my 2 cents ;).
-----Original Message----- From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:07 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: issue with the Mail task I'd claim this as a bug (or at least a "it shouldn't really work this way). Please file it in Bugzilla for us to address during the Ant 1.5 beta period. Erik ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mallampati, Suresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:41 AM Subject: issue with the Mail task > Hi, > attached is a code snippet of my usage of the mail task. It looks like the > property is evaluated and replaced by the value in the subject of the mail. > But its not evaluated in the message body. Is this the expected behaviour? > Initially thought, was doing something wrong with the escape char '$'. So > tried both '$' and '$$'. > > <snip - build.xml> > <target name="email" depends="init"> > <mail mailhost="mysmtp1" > subject="Build Report -- > ${ant.project.name}--$${result.javac.project}--${result.javac.project}" > from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > tolist="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > messagemimetype="text/plain" > encoding="plain"> > > <message> > "Compilation of Classes - > $${result.javac.project} > Compilation of Classes - > ${result.javac.project}" > </message> > </mail> > </target> > </snip> > > email-result: > > subject - Build Report -- Architecture--${result.javac.project}--success > message: "Compilation of Classes - > $${result.javac.project} > Compilation of Classes - > ${result.javac.project}" > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
