Bug#368405: manual page unclear

[Marc Haber]

severity #368405 minor
tags #368405 upstream
forwarded #368405 http://sesame.csx.cam.ac.uk/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111
thanks

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:49:09PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> For instance consider this piece of the man page:
>  
>        -t        When  Exim is receiving a locally-generated, non-SMTP message 
>                  on its standard input, the -t option causes the recipients of 
>                  the message to be obtained from the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: header 
>                  lines in the message instead of from the  command  arguments. 
>                  The addresses are extracted before any rewriting takes place. 
>  
> "When Exim is receiving a locally-generated, non-SMTP message on its
> standard input...". So which options must I pass to exim, along with
> "-t", to get it to "receive a locally-generated non-SMTP message on
> its standard input"?

None.

> Good luck finding the answer in the man page, or
> in the specification. The answer seems to be "none" but I don't know
> how I was supposed to figure that out, other than by trial and error.

Exim is a plug-in replacement for sendmail, which has always behaved
this way.

> It seems like a pretty typical use case to me, though. I think that
> something should be said near the top of the manual page about common
> use cases such as this. The most common options options can be put
> before the others, which would help a lot, but there should be some
> introductory text as well.

Agreed. I have forwarded this upstream and apologize for taking so
long to react to your report.

Greetings
Marc

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