>For clarity, >I decided to use a "mail group", for example "My Group" as in this 3 line >body less test draft: > > From: my_from_alias_here > To: My Group: [email protected] ; > > Fcc: sent > >Of course it bounces, but in the bounce "[email protected]" >is stripped out of the To header.
Well, this is expected NMH behavior (this behavior has existed in MH as far back as it existed, AFAICT). This happens in post(8) (if putadr() sees that you are in a group, it simply won't output the address). So, to answer your questions: >Is this behavior of stripping the addresses out of the header per spec? This is outside of the specification, AFAICT, because this is really an internal nmh issue; the relevant specifications only detail the format of email messages, and nmh conforms to those. >Is there any syntax that stops the removal? Looking at the code .... no. Some general comments: there is no special meaning to "Undisclosed recipients"; the RFC uses that as an example, but you could put any group name in there in theory (in practice, though, if you try to do that you'll get a bunch of bounces from spam filters, sigh). And, really, a better question is ... what the heck are you trying to do, honestly?? I have never really understood what the purpose of the group syntax is; I mean, yeah, I've read the RFCs about them, but they deal in kinda vague high-level concepts; I don't really understand how to translate those words into actual code. What the original authors of MH decided was that if you see the group syntax in a draft file, assume the author wanted to obscure the recipients of the message. In theory we could come up with some syntax that prevented that from happening, but I for one would like to understand what the goal is before we made such a change. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
