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You said: > Turning off $bccaddress should not upset the regular > email notification to subscribers. However, the regular > eamil notificaton is not working now. The real list is in the bcc field. The reason for this is that otherwise we would be sending out the whole list with every email message in the "To:" field. This is a privacy issue as well as a practicality - the lists can get very long. There isn't an alternative that I know of that doesn't potentially break shells with extremely long command lines, and such. You say: > In sub notifySubscribers { ..} in add-lib.pl, it seems
> that: when the notification is constructed, $toaddress is
> set to "HyperNews";
"HyperNews" is the default address. In older versions, there was not a $mail_to variable, but the $mail_sender was used, I believe. We have to have some address in the "To:" field, I am told. Please tell me otherwise. (Keep in mind that not all sendmails work the same - I got this info from Eric Allman himself.) > and $bccaddress seems to have > addresses of people who are regular subscriber (except > this should include the adminstrators, i.e, this kind of > email should not be bcc'ed to administrators). Administrators are not normally included in email. Only the owner of the base article is included, unless unsubscribed (if that works), and that may typically be an administrator, or at least he is treated as such for that base article. Other admin are not included. Hope that answers your other questions. It is by design. The only change I might make is to have the "To" address be the author of the thing which is being responded to. But that person might have unsubscribed, so we would have to find some substitute. |
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