Re: [Exim] Multiple rcpt to commands

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Author: Mike Wayburne
Date:  
To: Walt Reed
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Multiple rcpt to commands
Doing it manually:
telnet localhost 25
mail from: mike.wayburne@???
rcpt to: userunknown@???
rcpt to: mikew@???
data
test
.

gives the following headers:
Received: from relay04.somedomain.com [196.14.x.x] by acenet.co.za with ESMTP
(SMTPD32-5.05) id A3B848190108; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:55:52 +0200
Received: from amavis by relay04.somedomain.com with scanned-ok (Exim 4.05)
id 1AKD7U-0003n5-00; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:46:28 +0200
Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1])
by relay04.somedomain.com with smtp (Exim 4.05)
id 1AKD7T-0003kH-00; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:46:28 +0200
Message-Id: <E1AKD7T-0003kH-00@???>
From: mike.wayburne@???
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:46:28 +0200
X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300
X-RCPT-TO: <mikew@???>
X-UIDL: 368749753
Status: U

Doing it through OE:
Received: from relay04.somedomain.com [196.14.x.x] by acenet.co.za with ESMTP
(SMTPD32-5.05) id A1D9770A0122; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:24:57 +0200
Received: from amavis by relay04.somedomain.com with scanned-ok (Exim 4.05)
id 1AKXEv-00020e-00; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:15:29 +0200
Received: from [196.14.x.x] (helo=shrike)
by relay04.somedomain.com with smtp (Exim 4.05)
id 1AKXEv-00020U-00; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:15:29 +0200
Message-ID: <045501c3aa76$ab51bf30$6f04a8c0@???>
Reply-To: "Mike Wayburne" <mike.wayburne@???>
From: "Mike Wayburne" <mike.wayburne@???>
To: <userunknown@???>
Cc: <mikew@???>
Subject:
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:15:14 +0200
Organization: NetraLINK
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300
X-RCPT-TO: <mikew@???>
X-UIDL: 368749754
Status: U

I can see that the difference between the 2 headers is that the one from OE gives the extra:
Reply-To: "Mike Wayburne" <mike.wayburne@???>
To: <userunknown@???>
Cc: <mikew@???>
Subject:
Organization: NetraLINK
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165

The one where I am having the problem is "To: <userunknown@???>" and the "Cc: <mikew@???>" (the rest of the
headers I'm not worried about - I can generate those) which doesn't show up in the first set of headers and I want it to. Is this a
bug or is exim supposed to do this?

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Reed" <exim@???>
To: "Mike Wayburne" <mike.wayburne@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Multiple rcpt to commands


On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:44:07PM +0200, Mike Wayburne said:
> Basically I have found that when one sends an e-mail to multiple recipients where the first one is unknown and the rest are valid,
> the headers of the valid ones get lost in the headers. I found this to be quite weird as when using a MUA (Microsoft Outlook

Express
> 6) to send an e-mail to an unknown user and cc'ed and bcc'ed legitimate users, it worked fine but when doing it manually, the
> problem occurred. Please can someone help.


This doesn't make any sense.

What do you mean "lost in the headers"? Can you post an example of those
headers and your exim logs that pertain to the transaction?
How are you doing things "manually"? Are you telneting to port 25 and
issueing raw SMTP commands? Please explain.

MS OE behaves poorly when one of the addresses is rejected by the local
MTA, but that's a client problem and not an exim problem.