Michael Convey <[email protected]> wrote: |On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Martin Neitzel <[1]neitzel\ |@gaertner.de[/1]> wrote: |Thank you. I'm struggling somewhat with the man page's archaic language. =) | |Here, I tried to compose a message with a carbon copy and failed: | |& m root ~h Cc:lab ` |"/home/lab/dead.letter" 1/25 | |. . . message not sent.
|I believe I understand how to do it in the body of the message, as follows: |Second try. |Is there a way to add a 'cc' or 'bcc' on the '& m [address]' line? No, you can only use the tilde escapes ~xy for that when in interactive mode. The syntax rules are quite restricted, for example many people simply cannot understand that a comment line must stand on its own, and that set some-var # we need this here 'cause.. doesn't work. The problem is again the long history and that people got used to it for so long. And then it even became an industry standard. Your example is very problem in particular because recipients may be name `alias'es, target files, email addresses, and even complete shell command specifications. There are even commands which use different syntax on a single line, at least potentially (some commands require a file path as the last argument to which quoting rules get applied which may not apply to the content before it). But for subject and each recipient there are tilde escapes, ~s, ~t, ~c and ~b and using a newline instead of a space character for separation purposes isn't that much of a diffence, in the end. --steffen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ nail-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nail-devel
