On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 09:15:22AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 03:29:06PM +0100,
> Markus Stumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hoi folx,
> >
> > just had a discussion with a support person. Their MUA is not deleting
> > Bcc: Lines from the header.
> > They claim it's within the repsonsibility of the MTA to look at the
> > headers and "do the right thing".
> >
> > IMHO this is wrong. However all I could find about it was RFC1123
> > section 5.2.1, which says the MUA should construct envelope fields for
> > the SMTP protocol.
> >
> > Who's right? Any references?
>
> I think it is useful to consider there as being three types of mail programs
> instead of just two. There MTAs, MUAs and injection programs. I believe it
> is the injection programs' responsibility to strip bcc headers. The issue
> is a bit confused by sendmail, becuase the same binary runs in different
> modes as both an MTA and an injection program.
I agree, this changes my original stand a little bit in that indeed
_injection_ programs should strip Bcc's.
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
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| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
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