Re: [PATCH v4] send-email: Add simple email aliases format

Allen Hubbe [off-list ref] writes:

It depends what we want to do with this parser: accept existing
sendmail aliases files in git, or enforce that git alias files are
usable for sendmail.  I really don't expect the second to ever happen.
The first, maybe, but only if the alias file is edited to remove
aliases of pipes and maildirs etc.  The second may not work if we have
comments to the right, or aliases of aliases, which sendmail does not
claim to support.

Let me step back a bit.  Earlier you said your aim is not to use an
alias file you already have and use with the MUA/MTA, but to have a
collection of aliases to use with git-send-email only.  Is there a
reason to add support for a new format (whether it is compatible to
or subset of postfix/sendmail format, or a totally new one) for that
goal?  What makes the existing formats unsuitable?