[hobbit] MACROS

[Asif Iqbal]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 05:08:36AM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 05:33:45PM -0500, Kevin.Hanrahan at novainfo.com wrote:
> 
> [...]
> None of that is needed. This one
> 
> > $ALERTGROUP=kevin at domain.com bob at domain.com joe at domain.com
> 
> will work, assuming you use it like
> 
>     HOST=*
>         MAIL $ALERTGROUP COLOR=red
> 
> Comma-delimited also works for some people, but that depends on your
> "mail" program. Why? Because a definition like this
> 
>   $ALERTGROUP=kevin at domain.com,bob at domain.com,joe at domain.com

The only reason I like to use space separated instead of comma separated
is such, space separated email addresses only shows itself in the To:
header and _not_ all the email addresses.

There could be two reasons why I like to have not all emails in the same
To: header.

1. If anyone one wants to reply they won't reply to all. Some MUA are
makes it easier to do that possible mistake.
2. I would not want my oncall email address to be visible to other
groups who requested to get email alerts as well.

My two cents.

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