Re: [Exim] Working with Outlook 98

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: marc_lebeau
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Working with Outlook 98
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 marc_lebeau@??? wrote:

> Outlook 98 seems to only display one entry of the 'From:' field.
>
> So, If I forward a received e-mail from one of my machines to the
> other, my own e-mail address appears in the 'From' line and is the only
> one listed by Outlook.


I don't understand the problem. Although From: lines may contain
multiple addresses, they very rarely do, and forwarding shouldn't change
them. Forwarding normally wraps the message inside another one -
"bouncing" doesn't do this, but often adds resent-from: and other
resent- headers which should be separately displayed.

However, if you have a From: line with multiple addresses, your MUA
should display all of it. Pine does. I suggest you either complain to
your MUA supplier or change your MUA.

> Does anyone know what kind of rewriting rule I should apply for this to
> work ?
> I tried this without success :
> $localpart@$local_domain*,* $2,$local_part@$local_domain$1 f


That won't work. The pattern must match *one* address. It applies to the
working part of addresses - not the whole line (which may contain
comments, "phrase"s and so on). Each individual address in a header line
is separately rewritten.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.