Re: [exim] Silly Question about "To: " manipulation...

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Gary Allen Vollink
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Silly Question about "To: " manipulation...
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Gary Allen Vollink wrote:

> If someone sends Email to a multi-user alias, like sales-team@???,
> I use (as many do) an alias to get it delivered. However, I was
> wondering if it were possible (or even advisable) to devise a way to
> modify the To: line with the expanded names (though, not necessarily the
> full Email addresses).


Have a look at the "w" rewrite rule flag. I wouldn't recommend it,
though, because it's really fiddly to do and against best practice.
It would be better to have some out-of-band system that allows the
recipients of an alias to find out who is on it, e.g. a web directory.

Tony.
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