[ Stephen Campbell writes: ]
>
> I understand the problem, but there's a big difference between deprecating a
> feature and causing existing aliases to break badly. Try putting a "-r addr"
> on the command line and see what happens. I think resend gets into real
> trouble, generating headers like Reply-to: 1@Dartmouth.EDU and possibly
> causing failures such as:
>
> MAJORDOMO ABORT
>
> do_exec_sendmail, mailer -fMajordomo-Owner not executable
>
> If you want to deprecate a feature that was valid in the past, at least parse
> it correctly, have it do what it used to do, and then generate some error
> message so the list owner or majordomo owner knows to switch to the config
> file option.
I was just pointing out the reason things are as they are. I did't make
the change or participate in any decision to make the change. JFTR, if
I'd have made it, resend would've slapped your hand for putting anything
but the required parameters in the alias and refused to work until you
fixed the alias. ;-)
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Dave Wolfe
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