[ On Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 09:33:12 (+0000), Philip Hazel wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Resent- headers
>
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
> > The MTA has a very simple job when it comes to using headers to route a
> > message (i.e. when acting as "sendmail -t") and there should never be
> > any confusion here. If there are "resent-" headers then they are to be
> > used _exactly_ as if they were the non-prefixed "set" and the
> > non-prefixed "set" _must_ be ignored. I.e. if there are multiple
> > "resent-to:" headers then the message must be routed to all recipients
> > from all those headers just as it would be for multiple "to:" headers.
>
> That is what Exim (since release 4.20) is supposed to do.
Yes, I know (thank you for that, BTW!) -- I just wanted to explain in
more/different words why what exim is now doing is correct (or at least
the best and safest possible approach to these issues). :-)
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