Replying to myself, the half-way option is to get -n working, but continue to default to the -y behavior.
Note that this would still be the opposite behavior of dbmail-util, but would continue to be consistent with past version of dbmail-users. Yea, nay? Aaron On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 02:13 -0800, Aaron Stone wrote: > Hi folks, > > For too long, dbmail-users would bomb out if -n/-y were used. All > actions simply were executed without the -y required to make changes. > I've changed that in SVN, for the 2.2.3 release to have the new > behavior. > > I want to give a heads up that wrapper scripts will be impacted because > with DBMail >= 2.2.3, you must issue a -y to cause anything to happen. > > Bad news is that if you are *expecting* the upcoming 2.2.3 dbmail-users > safety check behavior and use DBMail <= 2.2.2, and issue the wrong > options, you get what you typed, like it or not. > > More bad news is that DBMail <= 2.2.2 dbmail-users will bomb out if you > give either of -n/-y. This means that wrapper scripts will have to be > written to live on one side of the version break or the other. > > My apologies to anybody who is inconvenienced by this change. It's > something I'd like to get released sooner rather than later so that I > can sleep better knowing that nobody is accidentally 'dbmail-users -e' > themselves into empty mailbox oblivion. > > Aaron > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev _______________________________________________ Dbmail-dev mailing list [email protected] http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev
