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David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

> I have:
>
>   (setq message-default-headers "To: dave@boost-consulting.com")
>
> which is designed to make sure I'm on the recipient list of any
> message or reply I send.  This works great, except that it results in
> multiple To: headers
>
> So, the question: is this curable?  I'm sure hotmail is wrong and evil
> for mistreating my emails this way, but I'd really prefer to
> accomodate it rather than be unable to communicate with 10% (I guess)
> of all email users.

Hotmail is correct -- a message must not have more than one To field.

How about adding a Cc or BCC field with your address instead?