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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

4299.0. "Exploding Distribution List" by WROS02::IOWAIT::roch_vi () Tue Jun 28 1994 23:58

As I noticed in previous notes...

My customer is running ALL-IN-1 with PMDF for Internet access.  When
an ALL-IN-1 distribution list is sent to an internet person, the list is 
expanded and everyone on the list is displayed to the recipient prior to the 
message.  This causes a hang up on my customers macintosh...

1) What is causing this?  ALL-IN-1???
2) Is there a fix? 
3) Any suggestions -- or if you need to point me to another note, please do.

Thanks...vicki

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4299.1 Sounds like it's the MAC end that needs fixing IOSG::MARSHALL A glitch in reality Wed Jun 29 1994 13:05 17

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4299.1	Sounds like it's the MAC end that needs fixing	IOSG::MARSHALL	A glitch in reality	`Wed Jun 29 1994 13:05`	17
	Message Router does not support MTA-level distribution lists (cf X4.00). So you can't send an unexpanded distribution list on a message. When you create a message in ALL-IN-1 and add a distribution list to it, ALL-IN-1 expands the distribution list before sending the message. This is not restricted to ALL-IN-1, all user agents using Message Router must do this. It is up to the recipient's MTA/UA to decide whether to keep/display the whole distribution list; generally speaking they are supposed to. ALL-IN-1 provides neat features like displaying long addressee lists after the message, rather than before it, and with V3.1 you can turn off the display of long addressee lists entirely. Unfortunately not all user agents are this wonderful :-) As for whether there is a fix, it sounds like the application on the MAC is broken and needs fixing, if it hangs with a long addressee list. All other components in the chain are just doing what they are supposed to do! Scott

Message Router does not support MTA-level distribution lists (cf X4.00).  So you
can't send an unexpanded distribution list on a message.  When you create a
message in ALL-IN-1 and add a distribution list to it, ALL-IN-1 expands the
distribution list before sending the message.  This is not restricted to
ALL-IN-1, all user agents using Message Router must do this.

It is up to the recipient's MTA/UA to decide whether to keep/display the whole
distribution list; generally speaking they are supposed to.  ALL-IN-1 provides
neat features like displaying long addressee lists after the message, rather
than before it, and with V3.1 you can turn off the display of long addressee
lists entirely.  Unfortunately not all user agents are this wonderful :-)

As for whether there is a fix, it sounds like the application on the MAC is
broken and needs fixing, if it hangs with a long addressee list.  All other
components in the chain are just doing what they are supposed to do!

Scott