On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 11:24:23PM +0000, David L. Nicol wrote:
> John White flamed forth:
>
> > > man pages indicate ... that qmail-remote "sends the message
> > > to one or more recipients at a remote host." Which means that
> > > it still hasn't been split up when qmail-remote gets it, and that
> > > qmail-remote is the only program that would need to be patched.
> >
> > No it doesn't.
>
> Yes, that's what the man page for qmail-remote says.
No, you don't understand. Just because qmail-remote allows
multiple recipients doesn't mean that a message in the qmail
system hasn't been split at the time that qmail-remote is
invoked.
Nor would qmail-remote be the only program that needs to be patched
to allow qmail to do multiple recpt-to's.
> If a single
> qmail-remote instance is handling each address, why does the man
> page say that qmail-remote accepts multiple addresses?
qmail uses a single qmail-remote to deliver one message to one
recipient. qmail-remote is not limited to this. What's the problem?
> Does
> qmail-remote
> have aspects of its interface which are not being used by the other
> parts
> of the system?
Yes.
> Did the great DJB allow an inconsistency to appear
> between his coding and his documentation?
Not that I see in this specific case.
John
