RE: email API... to and CC:the same..

["Brendan Bispham" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

I understand what you are saying, but I am not sure it's relevant to the
problem.

If I send TO/CC/BCC from any client to three addresses, on a single domain
with two 'official' users, eg:

joe@domain (user joe)
joeb@domain (the same user joe)
jack@domain (user jack)

I get one message for each user account - i.e. two messages. If I CC'd joeb
100s of times I would still get one message for each account.

Obviously the client cannot know which addresses map to which accounts, so
it must be the target server which is deciding whether messages are
duplicated.

Thus, going back to Brad's question:
>I only received one copy.  Should I receive only one, or should I receive
3?
>Does the mail server maybe look at these addressess and try an consolodate?
>If I use different addresses on all three it works find and sends to each.

Yes, he should receive one copy per account, because the target mail server
is consolidating. The three addresses will work if they are different user
accounts (eg POP mail boxes).

Thus - it is not the AS/400 'client' that is causing the seemingly weird
results - it is the target server.

Brendan

NB I concede that Yahoo may be a client that is sending 3 different
messages, thus complicating the whole issue!

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