Update the -T option is working perfectly

*Erik WEBER*
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Le ven. 27 juin 2025 à 09:39, Erik Weber TSI <[email protected]>
a écrit :

> 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
>
> *Erik WEBER*
> *Consultant*
>
> [email protected]
> Mob. +33 (0)6 08 26 09 48
>
> www.tsi-consulting.fr
>
> *Agence : *
> 10 avenue Léonard de Vinci
> 37270 Montlouis sur Loire
> France
>
> *Siège social :*
> 119 Avenue George Sand
> 37700 La Ville aux Dames
> France
>
>
> 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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