Thank you for your thoughts, Tim.
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Originally Posted by BritTim
For forwarding, it is natural to use the list of addresses comprising the group
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Well, yes... but that's only helpful if the membership of the group is static.
One would have to modify the script every time a member joined or left the group, which rather defeats the object of having a group in the first place.
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Originally Posted by BritTim
For other purposes (involving checking for a header identifying a group) FastMail very likely wants to use a unique identifier across all users, rather than just the group name where the same name will often be used by many users.
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This makes good sense, but I'm wondering whether the reference is genuinely to the group, or is it merely to the list of contacts who were members of the group at the instant the rule was encoded. If it's really to the group then might it be possible somehow to use the same 36-character code for forwarding?