Re: Wildcard in aliasfile?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Daniel Ryde
CC: Exim Users
Subject: Re: Wildcard in aliasfile?
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Daniel Ryde wrote:

> > What do people feel about this? If, say, hostmaster and postmaster point
> > to the same address and somebody mails to "hostmaster,postmaster", do
> > you expect to get one or two copies of the message?
>
> No no, NO! :)
> This should not be the default behaviour.


Glad I've got that right, then.

> > But is it really going to help you? Surely what you want is a list of
> > *those recipients that have resolved to this transport* rather than all
> > recipients of the message?
>
> Ouch!. Ok, hmm I thought it did that...


No, the $recipients you see in the system filter file contains *all*
recipients.

> Hmm, trying to understand what you meen.


Likewise. :-)

I had a bit of thought about this over the weekend, but haven't really
got any proposal yet. I'll let you know if/when I come up with something.

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Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
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P.Hazel@???          England.  Phone: +44 1223 334714



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