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Article #1338Re: user's aliases on the To: line (was: UUnet and munging headers.)
From: Rich Salz
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 1990 13:42
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 1990 13:42
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In <10128@ogicse.ogc.edu> schaefer@ogicse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) writes: |Joe User (joe@joes.domain.org) has in his .mailrc (or .mushrc) file: | alias everybody fred mary tom peter@far.away.edu \ | henry@farther.off.com uunet!nowhere!jane |If he sets $no_expand in mush and gives the command | mail everybody |mush will send out a message with the headers (among others) | From: joe@joes.domain.org | To: everybody It is totally wrong to send out mail with an invalid address. If you must provide a "no_expand" sort of facility, leave OFF the to address and treat everyone as Bcc recipients. /rich $alz -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net. Use a domain-based address or give alternate paths, or you may lose out.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!husc6!bunny!nic!bbn.com!papaya.bbn.com!rsalz From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.mush Subject: Re: user's aliases on the To: line (was: UUnet and munging headers.) Message-ID: <2705@litchi.bbn.com> Date: 27 Jun 90 13:42:00 GMT References: <2777.AA2777@julie> <IaOviRb0BwwOQbc2ly@transarc.com> <136802@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <7329@gollum.twg.com> <10128@ogicse.ogc.edu> Followup-To: comp.mail.misc Organization: BBN Systems and Technology, Inc. Lines: 19