ID:               41297
 User updated by:  mattyrobuk at googlemail dot com
 Reported By:      mattyrobuk at googlemail dot com
-Status:           Bogus
+Status:           Open
 Bug Type:         Mail related
 Operating System: All
 PHP Version:      5.2.2
 New Comment:

I've spent the last 24 hours messing around with the command line 
version of sendmail on my Mac.

If you create a file as follows:
<!-- file start -->
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
bcc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: This is a Postfix Sendmail Test

This message is sent with the sendmail front end from the postfix mail

system
<!-- file end -->

And then send it via sendmail with:

cat filename | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -bp -v

Both of the BCC recipients get the email, note the line break between 
addresses. I would propose that this means that sendmail is correctly 
coping with line breaks in the bcc header.

This points back to an issue in PHP mail() when passing headers with 
line breaks to the sendmail binary on Unices. This is why I have re-
opened this bug ticket.


Previous Comments:
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[2007-05-05 18:37:37] mattyrobuk at googlemail dot com

",\r\n " should be a valid inclusion within a BCC header according to 
the RFC standards.

If the BCC string is being passed direct to sendmail by the PHP mail()

function unchanged then perhaps it is a bug in sendmail on in server 
configuration however this is a consistent issue on several different 
servers so I thought it might be a PHP bug.

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[2007-05-05 15:14:52] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Ilia, that's not how I read the RFC 2822
(http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html, section 2.2.3):

   "The process of moving from this folded multiple-line
representation
   of a header field to its single line representation is called
   "unfolding". Unfolding is accomplished by simply removing any CRLF
   that is immediately followed by WSP.  Each header field should be
   treated in its unfolded form for further syntactic and semantic
   evaluation."

So unless the normal BCC header does not allow a space there, the
header as specified is totally valid.

However, I still don't see how this is a bug in PHP, as we simply pass
on the headers to the sendmail binary on Unices.

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[2007-05-05 14:55:25] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

You need to take out the space in front on the Bcc header.

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[2007-05-05 14:51:23] mattyrobuk at googlemail dot com

Description:
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RFC 822 and RFC2822 demand that the bcc header line is not 
more than 998 characters long but allows for inclusion of 
folding whitespace (\r\n).



Including \r\n in the BCC header causes additional email 
addresses in the BCC header to be ignored by the mail() function.

Reproduce code:
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$to = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';

$subject = 'Test message';

$body = 'Test message.';

$headers = 'From: Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED],\r\n [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . "\r\n";

Expected result:
----------------
Email should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and BCC'd to 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] AND [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Actual result:
--------------
Email is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and BCC'd to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] never gets the email.



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