On Aug 27, 2004, at 4:51 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
Philip Hazel writes:
I guess I'm an "other". Not only MUAs, but also other software that
wants to send email uses "-t". I suspect there are more applications
that do this that I/you/we think.
Right. Personally, I've used it more times than I can remember, in
situations ranging from little throwaway scripts up to parts of
billing systems. Am I so unusual? It is the easiest way I know to
generate a valid message with a custom From field on unix.
It wouldn't surprise me if many thousand automated mail senders use it.
I wouldn't be surprised if I had personally written a thousand shell
scripts that use it. It wouldn't surprise me if quite a few of them
are still in use at sites I know nothing about. Breaking "sendmail -t"
strikes me as about as good an idea as changing the semantics of
asterisks in shell scripts. -- Nathaniel