Re: [Evolution] Bcc exposes recipients

[Eric Lambart <ximian nomeaning net>]

On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 11:00, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> When you address a message in Pegasus offline, only one message is
> visible in the outbox queue.  When you go online and send the queue, the
> mailer generates separate messages for the visible recipients and for
> the blind recipients.

This whole deal is a server issue.

I have a hard time believing any mailer would generate a separate
message for the BCC recipients, because that would _trigger_ the precise
problem John Schmidt was complaining of!  These (IMHO broken) servers
refuse to send a message to BCC-only, and treats all the BCC addresses
as visible CCs.  If Pegasus generates a separate message for _every_ BCC
recipient, that would indeed prevent any BCC recipient from ever knowing
about any other, but it could also generate a lot of excess traffic for
the mail server, which could upset some folks...

You can easily enough discover how your server behaves: Send a message
BCC-only, listing yourself several times as the BCC recipient.  When you
receive the message, does it say who the addressees are?

No?  Good.

Yes?  Then make sure you've got your Tools->Settings->"Prompt when
sending messages with only Bcc recipients defined" checkbox checked, so
you don't do that accidentally.  IIRC, this setting is checked by
default and has been in Evol since as long as I can remember.

Eric

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