Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 22:07:47 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reply-to addresses Message-ID: <199705140207.WAA26714@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199705132136.OAA16458@hub.freebsd.org> (jmb@FreeBSD.ORG)
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> majorodmo cannot do the auto-pruning, by the time the messag > gets to majordomo, it has already been sent to all recipients > sendmail therefore must do the pruning. as far as i know, > sendmail is not able to do this. sendmail here will properly prune mailing lists if they are expanded in /etc/aliases (or its include file). But I thought that chat@freebsd.org was a majordomo robot which exploded the message and sent it out, in which case it could look at the To: and Cc: headers anyway. If sendmail's expanding the aliases, then it can prune. I'll send you our sendmail.cf if it'll help. > even so, it would fail to handle .forward files (on other hosts) > and perhaps remote /etc/aliases as well (depending upon the > mail transfer agent at the far end and its configuration) Yes...ish... Used to, I would actually send and receive mail at gnu.ai.mit.edu!detlev!joelh, detlev being my home box that would dial up to an ISP and then UUCP in the mail. But my From: and Reply-To: lines would still mark joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu, which would be .forwarded to me. Also, I would subscribe to mailing lists as joelh@gnu. The bottom line there, is that anybody sending me mail would send it to the same address, so pruning could occour. I would think that a fair number of people who forward their mail use the subscription address in From:, so it would DTRT for them as well. And the vast majority, I would think, get their mail straight to their end boxes, no .forward, no /etc/aliases. Happy hacking, joelh -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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