On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 08:50:18AM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 10:40:19PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
[...]
> > Similarly in the help strings, one has "addresses" for ~b/~c
> > and "users" for ~t:
> >
> > ~b addresses add addresses to the Bcc: field\n\
> > ~c addresses add addresses to the Cc: field\n\
>
> > ~t users add users to the To: field\n\
>
> > I can't find anything about this in the manual.
>
> Ah, this at least has an explanation. The help for ~b and ~c was changed in
> 86700b01. I didn't catch the difference with ~t at the time because of the
> separation between them.
I would suspect historical reasons for using 'users', mail(1) does use
the same terminology here:
-c list
Send carbon copies to list of users. [...]
Would be interesting to know, if it is because Unix is a multi-user
system and mail was primarily used to send email to other users. Or if
the idea is just that in the end it's a user who receives the email. I
like the version using 'users', it feels more personal.
