[darcs-devel] %< or %b as requirement for --sendmail-command?

[David Roundy]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 07:54:20PM +0200, Marc Weber wrote:
> > Another option would be to simply make the default be %< if neither is
> > specified (and to document this).
> So there is only %b and <%? (no option passing the mail via env var ? :)

Passing via environment variables is highly risky, as there's a limit to
the total size of all environment variables (as I recently discovered after
having added code to darcs to pass information to posthooks via environment
variables.

> So the simplest ting is use stdin as default unless %b is specified.
> I like this

Yeah, that sounds good.  Of course, we should leave the %<, but document
that it's not needed.
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David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University