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Re: The Bcc Issue

2004-08-18 08:50:22


On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 03:36:24, Philip Hazel 
<ph10(_at_)cus(_dot_)cam(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk> wrote:

<snip>

With one possible exception, everybody's opinion was that an MTA has no
business messing with Bcc: header lines. Here is a quote from Tony
Hansen:

   "The MUA, however it is constituted, should handle all BCC processing,
   and the cloning of messages with and without the Bcc: header."

<snip>

I haven't seen it mentioned here yet, but shouldn't the rule be that the
agent that extracts the contents of the Bcc: header field, along with To:
and Cc:, in order to construct the 2821 RCPT TO: commands, is the agent that
determines the contents and/or (lack of) presence of the Bcc: field in the
message. Any agent that receives the recipient addresses via RCPT TO: can
be assured that the decision has already been made.

-- 
Bill McQuillan <McQuilWP(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com>


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