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RE: a question about e-mails


From: "Remko Lodder" <remko () elvandar org>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:25:10 +0100

I recall a message from earlier today stating an RFC about BCC,
think it was from valdis but not sure (recieved a lot of mail and
deleted the one i mentioned)

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Van: full-disclosure-bounces () lists elvandar org
[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces () lists elvandar org]Namens Nico Golde
Verzonden: vrijdag 27 februari 2004 23:06
Aan: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
Onderwerp: Re: [Full-Disclosure] a question about e-mails


Hallo Ben,

* Ben Nelson <lists () venom600 org> [2004-02-27 22:28]:
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Sounds like a broken MTA to me.

why?
regards nico


Nico Golde wrote:
| 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

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