[hobbit] MACROS

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Thu Mar 31 09:05:30 CEST 2005


On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 01:25:34PM +1000, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > ends up being passed as a command-line parameter to the $MAIL
> > program. So if your mail-program understands a list of recipients
> > separated by commas, it is actually more efficient because Hobbit only
> > needs to run the mail program once with the comma-separated list of
> > recipients.
> 
> Does hobbit understand that the comma delimited are actually individual
> email addresses for the purpose of deciding who to page? ie, say you had
> another rule which said don't page bob at domain.com, would it know to
> remove bob at domain.com from the rule?

No, Hobbit doesn't do any parsing of the recipient addresses - they
are blindly passed on to the mail- or script-program.


Regards,
Henrik



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