Martijn Lievaart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234 > Sure, the client (MUA) could sent to the others and after the user > corrected the address send it to the address that was originally faulty. > It could even include the full cc list in that message. However, it has > no way to get the cc list correct in the first messages sent, one > address is not correct. Think about the suprise the users face when the > same mail has different cc-lists when delivered to different addresses. > No, not sending the message at all in the first place is correct (as in > prinicple of least surprise).
This inconsistency problem is mostly hypothetical because people shouldn't learn new e-mail addresses from "To:" or "CC:" headers. This is a basic privacy principle. If I send messages to recipients who don't know the other recipient's addresses yet, I put the addresses in the "BCC:" field instead of the "To:" or "CC:" fields. Or I set up a proper mailing list. Also, if Courier silently (i.e. without error message) dropped invalid recipient addresses, it would also have to modify the message's "To:" or "CC:" headers to actually avoid the confusion you portraied. And that is a big no-no. However, I'm very well willing to leave it up to the mail client (or a configuration option thereof) whether a message with an invalid recipient address is completely abandoned from being sent or whether the invalid address is just skipped. But in any case there's nothing that should be fixed on Courier's side. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
