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Re: The Bcc Issue

2004-08-18 02:11:07
On Mon, 17 Aug 2004, Claus Färber wrote:

The /usr/[s]bin/sendmail interface is a proprietary interface introduced
by Sendmail. So all other applications providing this interface should
be as close to Sendmail's behaviour as possible, i.e. they should remove
Bcc headers.

In the case of -t, yes. I disagree in other cases because in those situations it is not known to be a submission. The message may have come in via UUCP, or be coming back from a virus scanner or mailing list exploder.

Said G.K. Chesterton in "The Defendant": "'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober'".

I think the same sentiment applies to Sendmail as to mothers.

Besides, people tell me that different versions/configurations of Sendmail behave differently, though I have no direct evidence to support this, so it may or may not be true.

Regards,
Philip

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