On 7/23/03 7:45 AM, "Remo Del Bello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nope, won't work. Think of an email message as a formal letter. First off, > you have the letter itself which has your address and the address of the > recipient on it. When your email program sends this letter to the mail > server, it is placed in an envelope which has the recipient address on it > along with your address. This is the only place the BCC info lives. On the > receiving end, the envelope is received, the letter is pulled out and placed > in the user's mailbox and then the envelope is discarded (Oops...there goes > the BCC info). Thanks for the explanation, Remo. Let me just make sure I'm understanding. More out of curiosity. I understand that functionally, I can't reply you other Bcc recipients. I think of an email as being a single text file that contains headers at the top that tell the mail servers what to do, or how to handle the file, and where to send it. If I send an email with Bcc addresses, I assume that simply means that among all the headers, there's now one called Bcc with some addresses following it. The point is, at some point along the chain, someone owns an email server that's receiving the text file with the Bcc header info still intact. Can the final recipients ever own that email server and gain access to the Bcc info? (Like a large corporation?) Whose server is responsible for stripping the Bcc header and Bcc addresses? And what prevents that process from being subverted? I realize this isn't a question about Entourage functionality. Just thought someone on the list might understand how this all works. Thanks, Doug ------------------------ Doug Brightwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
