Re: Number of recipients

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Author: Chris Thompson
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: Number of recipients
Philip Hazel writes:
>
> Mailers which permit senders to give incomplete addresses in the
> messages's headers that then get rewritten, e.g. getting
>
> To: ph10@cus
>
> rewritten as
>
> To: ph10@???
>
> after a DNS lookup also have to do all the routing before doing any of
> the sending, in order that all recipients of the message get a copy with
> the same headers in it.


There are no absolute guarantees about this last statement, though! If
sending is deferred for some recipients, then routing will happen again,
and may rewrite the headers again, if the DNS has changed, or the Exim
configuration file has changed, ...

Chris Thompson               Cambridge University Computing Service,
Email: cet1@???    New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
Phone: +44 1223 334715       United Kingdom.