Hi all, I am a mutt user trying to happily co-exist in an Exchange environment. For the most part all is well. I wrote a small Python program to act as my query_command to look up addresses via AD (LDAP) so I could have access to the company address book. The problem is that Distribution Groups are giving me problems.
For example, we have a fictitious distribution group called Solaris Admins. >From Outlook, I can send an email to its address [EMAIL PROTECTED] and my message is delivered to all "member" objects within this distribution group. However, if I attempt to send an email via SMTP to the Exchange server to this [EMAIL PROTECTED] email address, it gets bounced back with user unknown. I understand this is because Outlook is actually expanding the list of members from this group and sending to them individually. In other words this Distribution Group isn't like an alias in the sendmail world. No problem though, right? I expanded my LDAP querying utility to determine whether or not the address I am searching for is a distribution group, and if so, it expands each member dn into an email address and name and returns them all in mutt query_command format. Now I get a nice list of member users when I search for 'solarisadm'. However, this is kind of a pain when we're talking about a list with 100's of users in it. I typically tag all of the users then start a new message to all of the tagged users. This results in a very large To: list :) Can someone see a better way to do this? Is there a way to "tag" search resulst and then start a new mail with all the users in the Bcc field? Maybe I could have my query_command automatically create a mutt alias with all the users in question as members and get mutt to load this alias in automatically somehow... Anyways, just looking for some brainstorming. TIA! Ray
