Hello guten morgen (or goedemorgen I was born in the Netherlands) Steffen,

Sorry for email formatting by gmail.

Thanks for all the explanations I will try the -T option.

Regards

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Le jeu. 26 juin 2025 à 19:30, Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> a
écrit :

> Hello and Bonjour, Erik.
>
> Erik Weber TSI wrote in
>  <cafqqm0ht2db5pc+c_yph8sact9dmgn4fe6z8amo7kcha_c4...@mail.gmail.com>:
>
> i .. say it, HTML mail is not loved on this list; but i think it
> is hard to define per-recipient (domain) exceptions in the GMail
> web interface, so ..
>
>  |Hi, I don’t know if you can help me but I have a small question about
>  |s-nail, before on Redhat 7.9 we used the mailx command.
>  |
>  |/usr/bin/mailx -v -S smtp=”${server}” -S ttycharset=utf-8 -S
>  |smtp-use-starttls -S nss-config-dir=/etc/pki/nssdb/ -S smtp-auth=login -S
>  |smtp-auth-user=”${exp}” -S smtp-auth-password=”${pwd}” -r “${exp}” -s
>  |“${suject}” -c “${LISTCC}” “${TO}”
>  |< mail.txt 1> mail.log 2>& 1
>
> Lots of this no longer works, most importantly NSS support i had
> removed as one of the very first things in February 2013.  At the
> moment only OpenSSL (-compatible; LibreSSL) are supported.
>
> For the smtp= and smtp-auth* variables obsoletion messages should
> be printed; there is a manual section "URL syntax and credential
> lookup" for how to specify credentials.  Sorry, some things
> changed.  I hope it gets better in the future.
>
> (Off-topic but i admire Glenn Strauss who in a single rush added
> support for a plethora of TLS implementations for his lighttpd web
> server, and maintains that.)
>
>  |The string ${LISTCC} was containing mail1,mail2 and the string ${TO} was
>  |containing mail3,mail4
>  |
>  |With s-nail (Redhat 9.4) we changed the command to separate the string
>  |${TO} with space instead of ,
>
> Why?  Comma is email standard, better if this is undone.
> (However it *may* be necessary for this MUA to continue to support
> the space-separation for at least -t and -T; .. i still have to
> integrate the standard compliant email parser i have written into
> the codebase.)
>
>   ...
>  |But what can we do for the string ${LISTCC}, we tested -c mail1 -c mail2
> =>
>  |result not sending mail to mail1 and mail2.
>
> We had certain such questions like this, the last being
>
>   https://lists.sdaoden.eu/pipermail/s-mailx/2024-December/001837.html
>
> My answer was
>
>   Yet, what does not work like the above anymore is comma- or
>   space-separated lists, that is "a b" or "c,d".  The old address
>   parser is foolable, and so -b etc treat their arguments as
>
> ^ (this being the reason, the old parser used can be fooled, it
>   can easily misinterpret data, except for simple cases, and
>   i want(ed) to get over this for clarity.)
>
>   ..etc etc...
>
> In short: the answer is to use the new (non-portable) -T option
>
>   -T "field: addr", --target=..
>        (Send mode) Add addr to the list of receivers targeted by field,
>        for now supported are only ‘bcc’, ‘cc’, ‘fcc’, and ‘to’.  Field
>        and body (address) are separated by a colon ‘:’ and optionally
>        blank (space, tabulator) characters.
>        ...
>        addr is parsed like a message header address line,
>        as if it would be part of a template message fed in via
>        -t†
>        ...
>        This option may be used multiple times.
>
> Comma-separation is actual email syntax, so, if you can, you
> better revert to using comma instead of space.
>
>   ...
>  |Thank you for helping me.
>
> Well i hope it works out.
>
> Greetings to beautiful France!
>
> --steffen
> |
> |Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
> |der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
> |einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
> |(By Robert Gernhardt)
> |
> |During summer's humble, here's David Leonard's grumble
> |
> |The black bear,          The black bear,
> |blithely holds his own   holds himself at leisure
> |beating it, up and down  tossing over his ups and downs with pleasure
> |
> |Farewell, dear collar bear
>

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