Re: Identities and Bcc:

[Jules Bean <jules jellybean co uk>]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 11:56:31AM +0100, Brian Stafford wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just messing around with some of the settings in identities and noticed that
> the Bcc: field isn't, I feel, showing the desired behaviour.
> 
> I'm presuming that the intent is for the message sender to mail a personal copy
> of the letter to a suitable mailbox.  Unfortunately, this is not what Bcc:,
> as described in RFC 2822 and implemented in Balsa, does.  Basically Bcc: is
> the wrong mechanism for this purpose.

Hmm.  Putting a copy into a mailbox is normally called Fcc
(file-carbon-copy). It's not a header, although some programs (PINE)
manifest it as a pseudo header.

Bcc: is quite different, surely: it's another pseudo-header (in that
it shouldn't appear in the body of the message) but it determines
additional email recipients.

I suppose attaching one to an identity can be useful: when I am using
my identity "Acme Foo Sales <sales@acmefoocorp.com>", I always want to 
Bcc: the messages to <board@acmefoocorp.com> so they know what I'm
saying in the company's name?

Or did I misunderstand your point?

Jules