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Subject: Fw: generating "sent to" headers
From: "Arthur & Ashley Gibbs" <Gibbs @ cheerful . com>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:05:12 -0400
To: <majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM>

I want to include an individualized notice (e.g., "X-Sent-to: Fred Foo
<foo@bar.com>) in the
header of each message, letting the recipent know the address that _the
list_ used in reaching him.  (Mail forwarding software can munge "To:"
lines, making them unreliable as an identification mechanism.)

Majordomo expands a single mailing list name into a list of addresses,
by means of a mailing list description file.  This list is then, AFAIK,
sent to Sendmail for processing.  Sendmail should, at that point, be
able to grab each individual address and stuff it into a header, but I
can't see how to make this happen.

I have tried putting the following line at the end of my .mc file:

  HX-Sent-To: $u

Unfortunately, this only produces a line containing the name of the
mailing list.

I get a lot of messages that are forwarded around or sent through aliases
and it is difficult to figure out what address the list is using that ends
up with someone.  I need to have each message Majordomo sends include
somewhere the e-mail address of the user it is going to?

Any help please???

I tried to send this message before I joined the list so I'm not sure if it
went to the list.

Arthur :)




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