Re: Patch: Handle distribution lists on alias expansion

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Fri, 21 September 08:49 Toralf Lund wrote:
> On 2001.09.20 16:40 Brian Stafford wrote:

> > RFC 822 is obsolete.  The correct reference is RFC 2822.
> I see.
> 
> I actually read some of the RFC now ;-)

;-)

> Based on the information there, I
> think we can do [see attached patch] in order to display information on the
> actual match. As you can see (I hope), I'm now trying to use the group
> construct for distribution lists. I'm not sure I want to reveal this
> information (i.e. how exactly I group addresses in my setup) to the
> receivers, though, at least not in all cases, but perhaps it could
> (optionally) be stripped off elsewhere?

Right, don't forget that the SMTP envelope is independent of the message
headers.  I've seen some mailing lists that address messages with
"To: list-recipients:;", i.e. the recipient list uses list syntax but the
list is empty and the members of the list are used only in the SMTP session.

Brian