On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> A lot of what you appear to be trying to do is *firmly* in the context
> of an MUA like pine, mutt or exmh/mh.
>
>
> davidturetsky@??? said:
> > Do I understand correctly that with aliases exim substitutes the items
> > on the list for the alias and sends the exploded distribution to the
> > server, each recipient on the distribution able to view the
> > distribution unless 'Bcc:'; with Dave's script, the list is sent to
> > the server to distribute and each recipient only sees the post with
> > their address on the 'To:' line
>
> Nope.
>
> If you use an alias, you will send a mail that looks like:-
> From: <you@yourdomain>
> To: <alias@yourdomain>
> Subject: .... etc
>
> and thats what your recipients will get - ie they will just see the
> alias name and not the list of recpients. However they will be able to
> copy replies to that alias and get all the recipients unless you have
> jumped through hoops to stop that.
Recall that he doesnt actually have a local domain, so the alias will
probably be in a localhost.localdomain, so this probably wont hold
true..
Given this, and a possible per-message-recipient limit imposed by hist
smarthost, a somewhat more complex script thatn mine might be in
order....
David, you really should find a local unix/email guru who can help you
a bit more directly with this...
>
> If you use the BSMTP method then the headers can be hacked how you
> like, and there is no record of the recipients in the headers other
> than what you put in.
>
>
> > I recall an exim feature permitting some limit to be expressed on a
> > single 'batch' of addresses. Can such a feature (or similar) be used
> > to break up a long list which alias maps into if msn imposes a
> > server-side maximum (as they do using Outlook Express-- I don't know
> > whether it is only enforced on the client side, or both client and
> > server) of 64 addresses to a post
>
> This is not really a header issue... you don't want to put lists like
> this into headers.... it can be a real breach of privacy apart from
> anything else.
>
> Most MUAs allow you to have address book entries, which may well
> include lists of people and the MUA may (either configurably or by
> default) hide the recipient list or expose it in the headers.
>
> Nigel.
>
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