Re: [RFC] : correct handling of sent mails

[Bryan Butler <bbutler aoc nrao edu>]

i agree with peter here.  the only way you get into trouble in that
case is somewhat pathological - the To: part of the mail gets successfully
sent, but the Bcc: part fails for some reason.  do you want to go through
contortions to support such an improbable event?  i'd say probably not,
in which case peter's solution is the right one.


	-bryan butler


On 2002.09.05 06:47 Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 2002.09.05 07:47 Emmanuel wrote:
> > 	Hi all,
> > here is the way I think of the "put in sentbox" meaning : simply it 
> > means that the message has been successfully sent. So if we send 2 
> > different mails when we have the bcc field, we should put 2 messages 
> > in the sentbox, one with all headers unchanged, the next one 
> > (representing the bcc'ed message) with its bcc headers stripped and 
> > transformed as a To: header instead.
> > This way we give the user all information, because he can know if all 
> > mails have been sent correctly that way. This should simply be 
> > mentionned in the FAQ perhaps.
> > Bye
> > Manu
> 
> Munging headers, even for our own private copy, has to be a bad idea--I 
> could see being very confused, coming back to a mailbox months later 
> and seeing a `To:' header for a recipient I though was a `Bcc:' 
> recipient!
> 
> Personally, I'd like just a single copy, and having it fcc'ed when the 
> last version has been sent and the outbox is being cleared would suit 
> me just fine.
> 
> Peter
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