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Re: parsing "To:" and "Cc:" fields (need help)

1997-02-14 07:58:47
On Wednesday 12 February 97, at 16 h 50, the keyboard of Dan Orner 
<dano(_at_)towel(_dot_)com> wrote:

basically, i have a domain name (towel.com) managed by an ISP (best.com),
and e-mail for <anyuser>@towel.com goes to my single user account at the
ISP (dano(_at_)best(_dot_)com).  so i potentially have mail for 
"tom(_at_)towel(_dot_)com,"
"dick(_at_)towel(_dot_)com," and "harry(_at_)towel(_dot_)com" all ending up 
at "dano(_at_)best(_dot_)com(_dot_)"

This is the mother of all FAQs...

Basically, this cannot work. User names can be missing from the headers 
(mailing lists, Bcc: header, etc) and you cannot dispatch mail with 
procmail in that case.

If your Internet access provider told you his setup was a way to have 
your own domain, change for a new IAP. The former one is a liar.

He can use UUCP or some form of leaf-triggered-SMTP to reach the same 
goal... in a proper way. procmail is not the right tool for that job.


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