On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Victor Duchovni
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 03:41:11PM -0700, Yang Zhang wrote:
>
>> >> That's what it does - it generates u...@[email protected] - but I was
>> >> looking for something that preserves the BCC headers.
>> >
>> > You are mightily confused. ?Bcc headers are never sent by the MUA,
>> > so there is nothing to preserve. All that needs to be preserved is the
>> > message content and envelope. The "Bcc" header is a user-interface
>> > element, it is not a part of the message in-transit.
>>
>> Good grief, I was mightily confused indeed. Thank you.
>
> It would not be a "Bcc" if the list of Bcc'd recipients travelled along
> with the message...

Actually my model of the world was that the first SMTP server was the
one to strip them out, instead of the MUA!
--
Yang Zhang
http://yz.mit.edu/

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