On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Ollie Cook wrote:
> We have a system whereby user1@???
> and user2@??? might both get rewritten
> to olliecook@???.
>
> However, this has the side-effect that if you address
> mail to both parties, only one copy will be delivered.
Yes. This is fundamental to the way Exim handles addresses. There is
discussion in FAQ0439.
> >From the documentation (23.4):
>
> | Exim removes duplicate addresses from the list to
> | which it is delivering, so as to deliver just one
> | copy to each address. This does not apply to deliveries
> | directed at pipes by different immediate parent
> | addresses, but an indirect aliasing scheme of the type...
>
> My reading of the documentation is that this would
> only apply to addresses generated from an aliasfile
> director, but this would seem not to be the case (we are
> using the smartuser director with the new_address option).
It applies to ALL addresses handled by Exim.
> What the documentation doesn't seem to mention, is a
> way of preventing it from behaving like this. Is there
> such an option? If it does exist, and can be limited
> to certain directors, so much the better.
There is no way if you use address redirection. The FAQ mentions some
fudges that don't.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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