On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:
> After some thought, I have come to the conclusion that this is a bug.
> The Envelope-to header ought to contain *all* the top-level addresses
> that relate to a single delivery.
>
> It turns out that it isn't too hard to fix this bug, and I have done so
> in my development code. So if, for example, you have root and hostmaster
> and postmaster all aliased to the same person, then a message that is
> sent to all three of them results in a single delivery, containing
>
> Envelope-to: root@domain,
> hostmaster@domain,
> postmaster@domain
>
> A byproduct of this is that if somebody sends mail to the same address
> twice, it appears twice in the Envelope-to header. While it would be
> possible with some messing around to avoid this, I'm not sure it would
> actually be right anyway.
It might be better to leave the duplicates, then this could be translated
back to the actual rcpt commands.
> Would this solve your wildcard aliasing problem, Daniel?
Yes, definatley. But what will happen to others in compability aspects?
Can it be defined as a variable in conjunktion with add_header instead?
Best Regards
Daniel Ryde, System Administrator
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