Re: Personal recipients?

Derrick MacPherson wrote:

> Is there a way to get majordomo to deliver to personal recipients
> instead of the list name, in the To: field?
> 

This question gets frequently asked/answered.  Dave Barr should add
it to the FAQ.

To rephrase your question, you want the final recipient's address
in the To: header of the message that is distributed by majordomo.

The short answer, is majordomo doesn't do this.  Majordomo does not
have a switch, config, or plug-in to rewrite message headers.

Majordomo did not send the original message, the author of that message
did.  That author sent their message "To: [email protected]".  In
many or most cases, the author does not know or care who is subscribed
to your list, and has no intention of making the message appear to come
directly from him/her to each subscriber.  They wrote to the list, not
independent subscribers of that list.

Majordomo simply distributes the original message, headers in tact, to
the subscribed recipients of that list via your MTA as one message with
a list of addresses to deliver to.

Either majordomo "resend" would have to be rewritten to loop through
your subscriber list addressing a separate message to each subscriber,
or your MTA would have to be configured/rewritten to modify the To:
header field of the message.  This might even be achievable by piping
the message to another program between majordomo and your MTA.

If anyone in majordomo land has written such a program, configured an
MTA, or modified majordomo to support this request, please speak up.

Dan Liston