As it was written on Nov 10, thus Alan Clifford typed:
Alan: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Birl wrote:
Alan:
Alan: B> As it was written on Nov 7, thus Professional Software Engineering
typed:
Alan: B>
Alan: B> PSE-L: At 23:10 2003-11-07 +0000, Trevor Jenkins wrote:
Alan: B> PSE-L: >Surely you want to deal with email from lists before
assuming Bcc:ed.
Alan: B> PSE-L:
Alan: B> PSE-L: Well, in fact, you're BCC'd when delivered to from a list.
Alan: B>
Alan: B>
Alan: B>
Alan: B> Does that hold true if that "list" is actually an email alias?
Alan: B> Then the headers may lack 'Delivered-To' or 'X-Envelope-To'
information
Alan: B> (from the examples Ive looked at).
Alan: B>
Alan:
Alan: Put the headers out of your mind. Just regard your email address being in
Alan: a to: or cc: field merely as a courtesy. If your address is not in one
of
Alan: those fields, then the email has been sent to you using a mechanism that
Alan: you can considered to be called "blind carbon copy".
Alan:
Alan: You will not see a bcc: field in incoming messages. It is there in your
Alan: mail editor for outgoing messages merely as an easy method of passing the
Alan: destination address to the mail sending software whilst keeping it out of
Alan: the mail headers.
Alan:
Alan:
Alan: Alan
Alright, I understand that. However, if the 'list' is an email alias, is
it really a bcc? I guess the answer doesnt matter much as this is going
off topic.
Thanks
Birl
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