On Thu Mar 16 2000 at 12:39:25PM -0600, David DeSimone wrote:
> 
> Actually, Mutt is in a unique position here, to be able to specify
> sender addresses to sendmail without putting those names into the
> headers.  That is, Mutt could easily feed sendmail a message with a
> "To: undisclosed-recipients:;" header, and then give sendmail a command

Actually, I'd like to be  enlighted on this: when I compose from within
mutt, and set the To: field to something like this, here is what I get:
( I included all headers, I was Bcced)

>From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Wed Mar 29 15:48:44 2000
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:00:18 +0200
From: Fabrice Planchon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "test du rewriting": ;"test du rewriting":;;"test du
rewriting":;@jussieu.fr;;;;
Subject: test
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.1i
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



So, how comes the To hearder is expanded like this, and who is doing
this ? mutt or the MTA ? (actually, sending the same e-mmail locally
would produce just 
To: "test du rewriting": ;"test du rewriting":;;
so the odds are the MTA has to do with it...)

         F.

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