On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 09:35:10AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2026-06-01 06:58:10 +0200, Rene Kita wrote: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.
I agree 'users' feels warmer, but Vincent is right. The commit (86700b01) also came from a mutt translator, and translators usually have good instincts about preciseness of words, so I'm inclined to fix the ~t help to say addresses too.
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