[ILUG] Re: Multidrop Mail

[Lars Hecking]

> For example:
> 
> To: "Paul" <school at eircom.net>
> To: "John" <school at eircom.net>
> To: "Brian" <school at eircom.net>
> 
> All these E-mails are addressed to the same E-mail addresses, but the
> personal name
> should allow me to drop these into seperate mail boxes Internally.
> Outgoing mail should
> have a similar format for the "From:" field.

 This is ultimately unreliable. You cannot rely on the presence of
 RFC-822 comments in headers. Secondly, there could be old-style
 headers

 To: school at eircom.net (Paul)

 Thirdly, there are CC's. And four, this is where it all fails: Bcc's.

 Everything that involves not giving everyone their owm, unique
 address is a maintenance nightmare. Stay away from it. All you need
 is your gateway box as primary MX, your ISP's mailhost as secondary,
 and that is that.