This is what will go into 2.2.3

Aaron Stone wrote:
> 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
>>
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