On Wed, 22 May 2002, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> I was testing a new alias, when I noticed that the router only processes
> the first recipient in To:, ignoring all the others.
Routers do not process recipients in To: lines. They process recipients
from the message's envelope.
> # exim -d -bt webmaster@??? postmaster@???
> root@??? > debug 2>&1
Testing routing isn't quite the same as testing a real delivery. In
particular, de-duplication doesn't happen. What is the output when you
actually send a message to several addresses?
> I only get the message to the first recipient, however. I thought it was a
> Courier-IMAP problem at first, as the debug output indicates that all
> messages were routed, but looking at Exim's main.log, I only see one
> instance of delivery:
Aha! It *is* the de-duplication that is confusing you.
> What am I missing here? Is this a feature?
Yes. Exim only delivers one copy when several addresses resolve to the
same mailbox. However, you should see all the addresses in the
Envelope-To: header line.
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