On 2026-06-01 06:58:10 +0200, Rene Kita wrote: > 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.
E-mail addresses may be mailing-list addresses or addresses to be handled entirely by software (e.g. subscription or BTS addresses), so I would say that "users" can be misleading. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
