Re: [Nmh-workers] post ignores extra commas

[norm]

David Levine <address@hidden> writes:
>Norm wrote:
>
>> post (or maybe send) ignores extra commas before, between, after, or
>> instead of addresses.
>
>It is post, specifically the hand-crafted address parser in sbr/mf.c.
>
>> I don't know whether this feature is intended or not, but I hope it stays.
>
>I think it's a potentially useful feature, because it allows, say,
>drafts to be templates that have address fields which are filled in
>by a script.  If a From: ends up with no addresses, or there are no
>To:, Cc:, Bcc:, or Dcc: addresses, post will notice and refuse to
>deliver the message.

I find it to be more than little useful in simplifying scripts. I hope that
the feature stays, even though it's undocumented.