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Re: [imap5] Feature set? - was Re: Designing a new replacement protocol for IMAP

Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com> Sat, 18 February 2012 07:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [imap5] Feature set? - was Re: Designing a new replacement protocol for IMAP
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AFAIR Bcc should never hit the wire.  That's how it can be "blind" 
carbon copy.

Otherwise you rely on a server to strip it.


On 18/02/2012 12:30 a.m., Tony Finch wrote:
> Adrien de Croy<adrien@qbik.com>  wrote:
>> I think the guys that developed SMTP would disagree with you.  The reason the
>> envelope is even specified in SMTP rather than the receiver simply scraping
>> them out of the message, is that sometimes you need to deliver a message
>> somewhere other than the To: / bcc: headers.
> I don't believe that is true for message submission. See the discussion in
> RCF 5322 about how the BCC header can turned into a message envelope (or
> in some cases, several).
>
> Tony.

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