On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> > @- Added a new parameter to mail() which appends aditional command line
> > @ parameters to the mail program. (Derick)
>
> This won't be portable, on windows it uses raw smtp code...
I know this... it should probably be noted in the docs.
> Are you sure we should be adding that option to the mail() command? If the
> user really needs the advanced features provided by sendmail, they can
> easily use popen() to achieve this...
I think the -f option to sendmail is not advanced, and that because that
without this -f option, all mail seems to come from nobody@localhost, this
clutters up the logs, and no stats can be gegenerated about the usage of
the scripts that send mail.
The popen is possible too of course, but I think it's not that easy to do
for almost not experienced users. To lower the bar for these users (and
for making the transistion easier) I think this functionality is justified
to be included in the CVS tree.
For security, I thought about makeing the fifth parameter only be
used for the -f option only, but this would be troublesome for other
mailers probably. However, I really think that restricting it to the -f
option is better.
Derick Rethans
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