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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:26:18 +0100
From: Ned Slider <ned@unixmail.co.uk>
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On 06/03/2010 05:29 PM, LuKreme wrote:
> On 3-Jun-2010, at 03:27, Ned Slider wrote:
>>
>> Can we re-evaluate how useful this is, or maybe exclude To: and CC: headers?
>
> After several years I have trained all my users to use the Bcc header for any email going to more than 4 or 5 users and to address those emails to themselves.
>
> To me, this seems like a better solution (but then part of my 'training' was to tell the webmail to disallow sending emails to more than 20 recipients in To/CC).
>
>

Indeed, except it wasn't one of "my users" who stuck 90 addresses in the 
To field - one of "my users" just happened to be one of the 90 recipients.

Who would you suggest I train? :-)

I don't believe the genuine intent here is to write a rule to score 
messages sent "To:" multiple recipients.

BTW, I received another such message today that /only/ had 40 recipients 
and that didn't trigger the rule.