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list Asif Iqbal
Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:07:23 -0500
Message-Id: <user-a6035d76706c@xymon.invalid>

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 05:08:36AM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 05:33:45PM -0500, user-fd47fec4b039@xymon.invalid wrote:

[...]
None of that is needed. This one
$ALERTGROUP=user-490a14721d84@xymon.invalid user-0ea294303ceb@xymon.invalid user-85a97e0c328b@xymon.invalid
will work, assuming you use it like

    HOST=*
        MAIL $ALERTGROUP COLOR=red

Comma-delimited also works for some people, but that depends on your
"mail" program. Why? Because a definition like this

  $ALERTGROUP=user-490a14721d84@xymon.invalid,user-0ea294303ceb@xymon.invalid,user-85a97e0c328b@xymon.invalid
The only reason I like to use space separated instead of comma separated
is such, space separated email addresses only shows itself in the To:
header and _not_ all the email addresses.

There could be two reasons why I like to have not all emails in the same
To: header.

1. If anyone one wants to reply they won't reply to all. Some MUA are
makes it easier to do that possible mistake.
2. I would not want my oncall email address to be visible to other
groups who requested to get email alerts as well.

My two cents.

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