[comp.mail.mh] Non-expanding list of adressees

abrams@SOLDIER.MITRE.ORG (01/08/90)

I would like to put soem aliases in my aliasfile that do not expand to
a long list which every adressee sees.  That is, when I have a long
list of adressees, I don't want everyone's mail to be cluttered with
that list.  Is there some way of accomplishing this?

I may have asked this question before.  I know I still have a problem.

Sincerely,
 
- Marshall D. Abrams, phone: (703) 883-6938
   The MITRE Corporation, 7525 Colshire Drive
   Mail Stop Z269, Mc Lean, VA   22102
   alternate e-mail address: abrams@mitre.org

marvit%hplpm@HPLABS.HP.COM (Peter Marvit) (01/09/90)

> I would like to put soem aliases in my aliasfile that do not expand to
> a long list which every adressee sees.  That is, when I have a long
> list of adressees, I don't want everyone's mail to be cluttered with
> that list.  Is there some way of accomplishing this?

In your header:

	To: Arbitrary-Name: mailing-list-alias;

In your ~Mail/Aliases (or whatever you use):

	mailing-list-alias: ronnie, maggie, george, barbara

Your recipients will see:

	To: Arbitrary-Name: ;

You can also you your own set of (comma-separated) names in place of
mailing-list-alias.  This, of course, assumes your MTS (mail transport
system) conformd to RFC-822.  See the RFC for details.

	-Peter "Mailing lists galore" Marvit
	 HP Labs

sylvain@burden.chorus.fr (Sylvain Langlois) (01/11/90)

   > I would like to put soem aliases in my aliasfile that do not expand to
   > a long list which every adressee sees.  That is, when I have a long
   > list of adressees, I don't want everyone's mail to be cluttered with
   > that list.  Is there some way of accomplishing this?

marvit>    In your header:
marvit> 	   To: Arbitrary-Name: mailing-list-alias;
marvit>    In your ~Mail/Aliases (or whatever you use):
marvit> 	   mailing-list-alias: ronnie, maggie, george, barbara
marvit>    Your recipients will see:
marvit> 	   To: Arbitrary-Name: ;

I cannot find any sendmail rewriting rules able to do this (neither in  my
configuration file, nor in any I have easy access to). Any hints?

Sylvain
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