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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

3808.0. "VMSmail Import doesn't show all addressees" by FORTY2::ASH (Mail Interchange Group, Reading) Tue Jan 25 1994 13:44

Is this a known problem? Perhaps not, if I'm the only one left using VMSmail 
Import!

Sometimes, not all the addressees are shown in the TO and CC lines. For 
instance, I got a VMSmail message this morning which apparently wasn't 
addressed to me! And of course, I've no idea how many other people got it.

I think this can be caused by the VMSmail sender separating addressees with a 
space, rather than a comma, but may be wrong.

grahame
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3808.1Thank you for your SPR etc etcAIMTEC::WICKS_AAtlanta's Most (In)famous WelshmanTue Jan 25 1994 16:227
    GASH,
                  
    have you submitted an SPR? (:==:)
    
    Regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks
3808.2SET HOST TRIFID?IOSG::PYEGraham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's ApprenticeTue Jan 25 1994 17:5218
    I think the problem is that we only put addresses on that we can decode
    from the VMSsnail message. Since the callable interface (in spite of
    Ian H's pleadings) only returns what the user types, we often can't
    work out DLs or nicknames (i.e. locally defined logicals.) I'm sure you
    knew that already, but I expect that when we can't work out the
    address, we just ignore it. Presumably your message had no
    comprehensible addresses at all.
    
    Of course if you use MRGATE, and the option is turned on, you get the
    friendly attachment with the original (as typed by the VMSmail user)
    and equally useless to MRGATE address list, but at least you can use
    your brain to work out who the users might be.
    
    I did argue that we ought to be able to guess some of the addressees by
    parsing the MRGATE attachment, but I couldn't convince anyone to write
    the code....
    
    Graham
3808.3Is it really that hard? FORTY2::ASHMail Interchange Group, ReadingWed Jan 26 1994 12:0229
Hi Graham,

Yes, understood - and I realise that MRGATE would do the trick. (Perhaps if we 
ever have instant senders and fetchers installed on Forty2 I'll switch to 
MRGATE!). 

The message this time had apparently one TO addressee (not me), and 2 CCs - 
the sender and someone else. Now we know that VMSmail adds ", sender-name" to 
the CC list (if set by the sender), and V Import can therefore identify the 
users separated by the comma. It seems to be that if the sender types:

TO: user1
CC: user2 user3

that I will see (after V RN),

TO: user1
CC: user3, sender

But I haven't done any testing to prove it. While V Import is separating the 
addresees in the To or CC list it should treat space as a separator, as well 
as comma.

Andy,

IPR? I'd love to, but (blush) I don't know how! And I thought I could check to 
see if it was known first.

grahame
3808.4Answered by mail...IOSG::PYEGraham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's ApprenticeWed Jan 26 1994 17:510