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@h1, f2@xxxxx > > and I send a note to AllMyFriends > > The SMTP headers will look like... > ... > RCPT TO: <f1@h1> > RCPT TO: <f2@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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: random-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx X-Loop: one Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1057772663.24415.34.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ <snip> The list recipients aren't seen anywhere. -- Brad Kittredge <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>