On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 11:16:13AM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 09:32:33PM -0800, Ira Weiny wrote: > > My apologies. Please ignore this series. > > > > I'm trying to use the new b4 send functionality and was trying to send this > > only to myself. I'm not sure what went wrong. The patches should be ok but > > this did not get sent to all the intended lists and people. > > > > I'm going to resend this hopefully to all the right addresses this time. > > Ira: First off thanks for the quick response and I have to say b4 send looks like an awesome tool. So I hope the above was not taken the wrong way. > > I don't think anything went wrong -- you probably used the new "reflect" > feature, right? I did! :-D > It fills out the To: and Cc: headers but doesn't actually send > actual mail to those accounts. Mail servers don't actually pay any attention > to those headers -- all that matters is what destinations are given to the > server during the envelope negotiation. I did not know that. But I was kind of coming to that conclusion based on what I saw happen. > > I do realize that this is confusing. :/ Only to those mere mortals such as myself who don't know squat about mail protocols! :-D > > Should I include anything in the output about this? Maybe. I'm not trying to put more burden on you. But for the ignorant maybe it is a good idea. I did panic when I saw all the to/cc addresses filled in. FWIW I do like the idea of seeing the headers as they appear. My personal scripts have features to dump emails before trying to send. So now that I know what happened I kind of like it. Thanks, Ira
