On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, John Kielkopf wrote:

> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "XMail mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 3:53 PM
> Subject: [xmail] Re: Quick mailproc.tab question.
>
>
> > On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, John Kielkopf wrote:
> >
> > > Good to know.
> > >
> > > May want to make a note of it in the Doc, just to avoid confusion.
> > >
> > > I assume when rebuilding the mailproc.tab after parsing, multiple
> "mailbox"
> > > lines could be eliminated without any change in behavior?  and the same
> > > would hold true for combining multiple redirect lines to a single one?
> >
> > It depends. A double mailbox is very likely to be merged because you
> > probably do not want to have double messages
>
> I see. This is what I'm doing currently, so I'll probably leave it.  If
> there's multiple "mailbox" commands, more than likely it's in error.  Can
> anyone think of any good reason why someone would want to receive multiples
> of the same message?
>
> > but a double redirect could
> > be a _requested_ behavior.
> >
>
> But;
> "redirect"[tab]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[tab]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[newline]
> would accomplish the same thing as:
> "redirect"[tab]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[newline]
> "redirect"[tab]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[newline]
>
> correct?  So my parse routine could combine all redirect addresses to a
> single line and still have the same effect?

In theory, at least if someone does not want to send two messages to the
same address.


>
> This is something I need to fix.  Currently, a second redirect command will
> step on the first, so in the end, only the last redirect command line will
> be used.
>
> On that note, what's xmail's line length limit?

Just keep it under 512 bytes and you're safe ...



- Davide


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