Re: [exim] List of recipients

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 14:04 -0700, Marilyn Davis wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > Is there any way of getting a full list of recipients of an email (after
> > > routers have been processed for alias expansion and redirection) ?
> >
> > If, in the acl you name as your acl_smtp_rcpt you put:
> >
> > warn set acl_m0 = $acl_m0 $local_part@$domain
> >
> > this will collect the addresses into $acl_m0, which is available
> > through the reception process and is available to routers, transports
> > and filters.
>
> this already exists in $recipients, but it won't help the OP since he
> wants the list _after_ routing.

Oh. I get it.

>
> you can collect all recipients by setting address_data in the first
> router. this comment may be useful:
>
> # ph10's recommended way of writing a non-routing router: "Use a
> # redirect router that redirects to the same address; set the
> # redirect_router option to point to the next router."
> # If we only need to set "address_data", we can cheat and set "data"
> # to the empty string. The router will decline, but that's fine.
>
> this may cause some duplicates in the list unless you write tricky code.

My understanding is that $address_data only stays with the address so
it can't collect from address to address.

I'm out of ideas.

Marilyn

>
> > > I would like to add the full list of actual recipients to an X-Header prior
> > > to delivering the email to an archive server.
>
> all routing is finished before running the transports, so I think this
> will work fine.
>

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