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Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt



On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:16:36PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
| On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:09:58PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
| > What were you expecting?  The only way you can suppress each recipient
| > from knowing who else is recieving something is using BCC...
| 
| That's not true.  Mailing list managers do it (I don't know the
| addresses of everyone subscribed to debian-user).

Actually, look at the headers of this message.  It was sent only to
"debian-user@lists.debian.org".  The fact that some other entity
picked up the message and stuffed it in a new message without
"correcting" the address in the letterhead is a separate issue.

| You can also supress the names of the recipients by adding an entry
| to /etc/aliases (or whatever your MTA uses).

That only works if you address it to your own domain.  Whether or not
that becomes an issue depends on the rest of your criteria and
knowing what this means.


MLMs and MTAs operate on the envelope, not the message itself, thus
they can manage to get the message delivered to some user without
their address appearing in the message.  mutt operates on the message
itself, and then infers the (original) envelope based on the To:, Cc:,
and Bcc: headers.

HTH,
-D

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