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From: sean@dmr.asa.com (Sean Baker)
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Subject: Checking if recipient is on To: or Cc: list
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Date: 30 May 91 19:58:14 GMT
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Does anyone know of a good way to tell whether the recipient
of a message is on the To: or Cc: list of the message?

I'm trying to do some maildelivery stuff, and I have a
function that I'd like to perform only if the recipient is
in the To: list of addresses.  I've tried passing the
maildelivery variable $(address) to my program, but this
variable always expands to the user name, not the actual
address in the To: or Cc: line.  If the $(address) expanded
to the actual address in the message text, I could just grep
for that in the To: and Cc: lines to see which one it was
contained in.

With aliasing and all, this is seeming more and more to be
nearly impossible to do reliably.  Or, perhaps (hopefully),
I'm just missing something.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  If I have not made
myself clear as to what I'm asking, please let me know and
I'll try to clarify.

Thanks,

Sean.
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Sean Baker <sean@dmr.asa.com>
Data Management Resources
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