cvs-syncmail-talk

[Cvs-syncmail] Re: Bug#168832: cvs-syncmail: doesn't work.

[Kevin R. <ke...@ro...>]

Hello cvs-syncmail guys,

The Debian cvs-syncmail package has already gotten a new user. Neil
Spring had confusion reading the output of --help and he put %s as the
argument to syncmail. He proposes adding some more information to that
output, perhaps along the lines of what he wrote below to help others who
might be led astry.
 
Best,

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Neil Spring wrote:
>  If the %s in the loginfo file is not %{sVv}, syncmail
>  will fail miserably with error messages you won't 
>  understand, making the example at the top of this file 
>  confusing and useless.  So be sure to ignore the example
>  at the top of this message and instead use: 
>  mymodule /usr/bin/syncmail %{sVv} som...@yo...main.
> 
> > Which would have been more clear.  
> 
> All I'm asking is that the example at the top (well outside
> the "usage" statement) be made usable.

[Cvs-syncmail] Re: Bug#168832: cvs-syncmail: doesn't work.

[Neil S. <ns...@cs...>]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:34:47PM -0700, Kevin Rosenberg wrote:
> Hello cvs-syncmail guys,

> The Debian cvs-syncmail package has already gotten a new user. Neil
> Spring had confusion reading the output of --help and he put %s as the
> argument to syncmail. He proposes adding some more information to that
> output, perhaps along the lines of what he wrote below to help
> others who
> might be led astry.

I actually would prefer the five-character change to modify
the example at the top of the output from:
    mymodule /path/to/this/script %s som...@yo...main
to:
    mymodule /path/to/this/script %{sVv} som...@yo...main

The rest was a tongue-in-cheek comment after being told to
RTFM.

thanks,
-neil