On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Whether or not the current alias expansion behaviour is the one and only
> right behaviour (you will get at least 3 differing views on that - yes, no
> & maybe) is almost irrelevant. You can get the behaviour you want by
> invoking the mailer with a recipients list - as is done by a number of
> other programs which can be used with Majordomo. These programs can give
> other advantages if configured right.
>
> So I don't think its worth fixing - its going to mean changing the way
> that exim handles some things quite fundamentally, and I like the current
> behaviour (which is likely to be lost by those changes). However it is
> worth putting a note in the docs. I'll try and add it to my proto-faq
> when I next get a chance....
As it happened, I was passing the relevant part of the manual earlier
today (the chapter on mailing lists) and I took the opportunity to put
in a paragraph describing the current behaviour.
_If_ I did anything about it, it would be an option, not a change of the
default behaviour.
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