"alternates" for other users?

Hi,

I have silly coworkers who insist on cc'ing themselves in messages. When I
hit 'g' to group reply to such messages, I'll sometimes get the same address
both in the To: and the Cc: lines. Does anybody have any strategies for
dealing with that besides deleting the Cc: entry by hand?

Mike

On Fri, 21 May 2004 16:09:48 +0000 (UTC), Mike Hunter <mhunter@berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have silly coworkers who insist on cc'ing themselves in messages. When I
> hit 'g' to group reply to such messages, I'll sometimes get the same address
> both in the To: and the Cc: lines. Does anybody have any strategies for
> dealing with that besides deleting the Cc: entry by hand?
>
> Mike

Write a script that cleared the Cc line on any mail from your co-workers
and either include it in a wrapper script for mutt or use procmail to
filter the mail through the script.

AC

On Fri, 21 May 2004 16:09:48 +0000 (UTC), Mike Hunter wrote:
> I have silly coworkers who insist on cc'ing themselves in messages.
> When I hit 'g' to group reply to such messages, I'll sometimes get the
> same address both in the To: and the Cc: lines. Does anybody have any
> strategies for dealing with that besides deleting the Cc: entry by
> hand?

My experience is that Mutt doesn't do this; it tends to manage the To
and Cc fields correctly.

However, it's also harmless: any properly configured MTA will collapse a
list of recipient addresses and only deliver a particular message once
to each person.

(The MTA cares nothing for what's in the To, Cc, From or other header
fields. It receives its list of recipient addresses as a separate
parameter, where To, Cc and Bcc are meaningless.)

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On 22 May 2004 15:09:31 +0950, Ben Finney wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2004 16:09:48 +0000 (UTC), Mike Hunter wrote:
> > I have silly coworkers who insist on cc'ing themselves in messages.
> > When I hit 'g' to group reply to such messages, I'll sometimes get the
> > same address both in the To: and the Cc: lines. Does anybody have any
> > strategies for dealing with that besides deleting the Cc: entry by
> > hand?
>
> My experience is that Mutt doesn't do this; it tends to manage the To
> and Cc fields correctly.
>
> However, it's also harmless: any properly configured MTA will collapse a
> list of recipient addresses and only deliver a particular message once
> to each person.
>
> (The MTA cares nothing for what's in the To, Cc, From or other header
> fields. It receives its list of recipient addresses as a separate
> parameter, where To, Cc and Bcc are meaningless.)

I should have been more careful in what I said. The evil coworkers will
sometimes end up being addressed @somebox.berkeley.edu and
@someotherbox.berkeley.edu, which both lead to the same mailbox. I agree
there's no way for mutt to know about this without help, but I was hoping
I could help it

But if I'm the only person who seems to think this is a problem...:|

On Tue, 25 May 2004 00:12:24 +0000 (UTC), Mike Hunter wrote:
> I should have been more careful in what I said. The evil coworkers will
> sometimes end up being addressed @somebox.berkeley.edu and
> @someotherbox.berkeley.edu, which both lead to the same mailbox. I agree
> there's no way for mutt to know about this without help, but I was hoping
> I could help it
>
> But if I'm the only person who seems to think this is a problem...:|

You're the only one that thinks it's *your* problem. *wry grin*

If the others don't like getting duplicates to both addresses, they can
learn about bcc'ing themselves at the other address instead of cc'ing.
The innocent look and "But I thought you WANTED copies at both
addresses. You sent them there in the first place," does wonders.

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abandoned in the woods to be raised by creatures of the wild.
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