Frankly, the right solution is to make this distribution group addressable through SMTP. -- Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 2007-03-20 16:53:36 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > From: Ray Van Dolson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: mutt-users@mutt.org > Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:53:36 -0700 > Subject: Advice on query_command technique. > X-Spam-Level: > X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.1.5 > > 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 > >
