How to "hide" large distributions in mail

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3 total messages Started by BASHAM BRYAN DUANE Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:38

#3855

Author: BASHAM BRYAN DUANE
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:38

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Hello,

I'm not a regular to this list, but I have a simple question: how
can I hide (or rename) all of this addresses in my To: or Cc: lists?

I use the basic "mail" program on UNIX and I have a very detailed
.mailrc file with several large aliases.  It is a real pain for my
readers to scan through a header that is often an order of magnitude
larger than the actual message.  Is there a way to hide the To: (and Cc:)
lines of the header, or better yet, to give the whole list a logical
name that is used in the To: and Cc: lines?

I know this is possible in the /etc/aliases file, but I have no
control over that file.  Is their a mechanism I can use on my
personal .mailrc file?

Thanks,
Bryan Basham

Re: How to "hide" large distributions in mail

#3861

Author: Rajappa Iyer
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 10:17

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bashamb@partial.cs.colorado.edu (BASHAM BRYAN DUANE) writes:

>I'm not a regular to this list, but I have a simple question: how
>can I hide (or rename) all of this addresses in my To: or Cc: lists?

There is no way I know of to hide the names of recipients specified
with To: and Cc:, but have you thought of using Bcc: ?

-- 
Rajappa Iyer			rs@cmie.ernet.in (Preferred)
				riyer@shakti.ncst.ernet.in

Re: How to "hide" large distributions in mail

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Author: Craig_Everhart
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:21

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Well, gee, AMDS (a local delivery system that's part of Andrew) let you
do this by recognizing addresses of the form
	+dist+FILENAME@domain.name
as valid, assuming that FILENAME is the name of a readable,
correctly-formatted AMDS distribution list.  That is, when the local
part of the address starts with the six characters ``+dist+'', the
remainder of the local part is interpreted as a file name by the
delivery system.

This is pleasant in that it allows anybody with file storage to maintain
their own distribution lists.  Yes, the envelope-from address is, by
default, set to be the owner of the file, or an address specified in the
distribution-list file itself.  And there are a couple of syntactic
constraints on the form of the distribution list file, for self-checking.

Not that you'd probably use AMDS unless you were also using AFS, but I
think that this feature is a good idea.

		Craig

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