Suggestions on One-Time Mailing

Brad Kittredge fedora at mauryisland.com
Thu Dec 18 23:46:29 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 13:17, Don wrote:
> >Brad Kittredge wrote:

<sniparoo>

> Or does alias processing only put the recipients in the RCPT TO: SMTP header
> and NOT in the To: RFC822 header... that would be ideal. Thinking about it a
> little more, this makes sense, so even if somebody did a "reply to all", it
> wouldn't get far unless the new sender also had the same alias defined.
> 
> Let's say I define an alias AllMyFriends: f1 at h1, f2 at h2...
> 
> and I send a note to AllMyFriends
> 
> The SMTP headers will look like...
> ...
> RCPT TO: <f1 at h1>
> RCPT TO: <f2 at h2>
> ...
> DATA
> Subject: A message for all my friends
> To: AllMyFriends
> ...
> 
> 
> So the message delivered doesn't have the entire distribution list enclosed
> anywhere.. the SMTP headers are not sent to the end client.
> 

Here's a snip from the headers taken from an email sent to a list:

<snip>
From: Brad Kittredge <me at somewhere.com>
To: random-list at somewhere.com
X-Loop: one
Content-Type: text/plain
Message-Id: <1057772663.24415.34.camel at somewhereelse.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.0 
Date: 09 Jul 2003 10:44:24 -0700
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=USER_AGENT_XIMIAN,X_LOOP
        autolearn=ham version=2.55
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp)
Status:   
X-Evolution-Source: pop://me@somewhereelse.net/
<snip>

The list recipients aren't seen anywhere.
-- 
Brad Kittredge <fedora at mauryisland.com>





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