>On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:29:04 -0400, Paul Donohue wrote: >> `man 5 crontab` says: >> MAILTO may also be used to direct mail to multiple recipients by >> separating recipient users with a comma.
>> It looks like cron effectively just runs `sendmail "$MAILTO"`, which >> produces the following error: $ sendmail >> "us...@example.com,us...@example.com" sendmail: recipient address >> us...@example.com,us...@example.com not accepted by the server >> sendmail: server message: 501 5.1.3 Invalid address sendmail: could >> not send mail (account default from /etc/msmtprc) Should be tested with other programs installed as sendmail. On 23.06.13 23:06, Martin Lambers wrote: >I'm a little worried if we can separate mail addresses by comma easily. > >My understanding is that commata are allowed in mail addresses, but only >inside quotation marks, and this usage is discouraged. Is that correct? Commas are used to separate multiple mail addresses in RFC822 (and successors) headers. If the comma appears as local part of single address, it must be quoted. >We could simply separate addresses at the comma, but in theory, this >may break things for users with mail addresses that contain commata. >Can we just ignore this? After all, the use case of separating mail >addresses by comma seems to be very uncommon itself (you're the first >one to ask about this in all the years). They should really be given as >separate arguments. I think that writing a simple mail address parser hat respects quoted strings and then splits by commas should not be hard to do. I also believe addresses containing commas are much less common than specifying multiple addresses separated by commas. I have tried to run sendmail with two addresses separated by commas - sendmail has split those into two different addresses. When I quoted local part containing a comma, the addresses was parsed as one recipient. Therefore I believe that sendmail parses the address list provided. The OP's error message indicates that cron expect this behaviour and simply passes the addresses list to sendmail. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. I intend to live forever - so far so good. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ msmtp-users mailing list msmtp-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msmtp-users
