Re: a question about e-mails

[Nico Golde <nion () gmx net>]

Hallo Chris,

* Chris Smith <chris.rs () xtra co nz> [2004-02-26 13:50]:
> > I have a question for it experts. I want to learn if there is any way of
> > understanding/finding the e-mail addresses at BCC part on an e-mail that is
> > send to you.
> >
> > Thanks for your consideration.
>
> Um, AFAIK the headers are stripped by the MTA on delivery to recipients 
> (except perhaps the recipient who was listed in the BCC field, but I'm not 
> sure and will most likely vary between MTA).
>
> I'm sure the SMTP RFC would probably help out on this.

I tested it on my system.
i send a mail to nico and bcc root.
here is the mail header:
        From nion () gmx net Thu Feb 26 14:28:30 2004
        Return-Path: nion () gmx net
        Received: by
                via sendmail from stdin
                id <m1AwLZ0-001n35C () ngolde de> (Debian Smail3.2.0.114)
                Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:28:30 +0100 (CET)
        Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:28:30 +0100
        From: Nico Golde <nion () gmx net>
        To: nico
        Bcc: root

^^^^^^^^^
here is the bcc line


        Subject: test
        Message-ID: <20040226132830.GA829 () ngolde de>

[...] 
regards nico
-- 
Nico Golde nico <at> ngolde <dot> de
public key available on:
http://www.ngolde.de/gpg.html
echo "[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb729901041524823122snlbxq"|dc

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