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Subject: Re: Using nobody
From: Mike Oliver <Mike . Oliver @ eng . sun . com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:13:41 -0800 (PST)
To: todd @ mrball . net
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
Reply-to: Mike Oliver <Mike . Oliver @ eng . sun . com>

Todd Lyons <todd@mrball.net> wrote:
> Using nobody to hide the internal distribution list name works wonders. 
> What I'm curious about is, is this a sendmail function or is majordomo
> seeing the ",nobody" in the aliases and doing it itself?

It's sendmail.

If the SMTP transaction indicates that a message is to be delivered to
a single destination then sendmail is typically configured to include a
"for <dest@domain>" phrase in the Received: line that it adds to the
message header on receipt of the message.  If the message is
SMTP-addressed to multiple destinations then sendmail doesn't include
that phrase.  Using ",nobody" as an additional destination for list
messages forces the latter behaviour.

You can suppress the "for <dest@domain>" phrase by taking the $u macro
out of the definition of the Received: line format in your sendmail.cf,
but that'd suppress the phrase in all messages, not just in list
messages.

Mike.
-- 
mike.oliver@eng.sun.com



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