In reference to my wanting to "turn around" an incoming mail
and reflect to to all members of a group.
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, era eriksson wrote (small excerpt):
> a list of permissible addresses; 3) If it is, I need to generate a
> mail with all members of the permissible list Bcc'ed; 4) It would be
I would guess that you could just as well feed the message to
! `cat $USERLIST` and the effect will be the same as if you had
BCC:ed it to all those people.
This is something that was never clear to me from man procmailrc(5)
as to how ! as a "delivery" works. I first thought about doing exactly
as era suggested with ! `cat $USERLIST`. However, I was afraid that
everybody's copy would get everybody else's address stacked up in the
received To: header. That is clumsy, and some people find it
irritating.
That's why I was going through all the -I "Bcc:" `cat $USERLIST`
business with formail. (I was going to use ! $MY_ADDR, because some
MTAs play funny games with Bcc: if To: is completely blank.) If ! does
not pile up everybody's address in everybody's copy, that would be the
way to go, but I never understood the man page (v3.10) that way.
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