Re: REQ: Send *one* Email to *many* receivers.

Hardy Griech (rgriech@ibm.net)
Sat, 28 Dec 1996 00:21:45 +0100

On Fri, 27 Dec 1996 19:18:43 +0100,
galactus@stack.nl (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet) wrote:
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> In article <aJ/wyErRv6mY092yn@sn.no>,
> toreau@sn.no (Tore Aursand) wrote:
> > Shouldn't it be possible to send *one* Email to *many* receivers, without
> > putting all the Email addresses in the To: or Bcc: field(s)? I miss such
> > a program, or function in Yarn, as I don't want any to let any company
> > 'steal my Email addresses'.
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> Maybe I'm missing something, but the Bcc field is what you should use
> for this. If you put your own address in the To field, and everyone
> else in the BCC field, then all recipients will only see your own
> address (in the To field) and not whom the message went to.
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That's implementation dependent! RFC822 (I assume it is outdated,
nevertheless) states:

4.5.3. BCC / RESENT-BCC

This field contains the identity of additional recipients of
the message. The contents of this field are not included in
copies of the message sent to the primary and secondary reci-
pients. Some systems may choose to include the text of the
"Bcc" field only in the author(s)'s copy, while others may
also include it in the text sent to all those indicated in the
"Bcc" list.

VSoup (& Souper I suppose) are transmitting an identical version of a
message to all recipients, because otherwise it has to send the
message twice with different content to different recipients (the
header is content!).

For VSoup this will perhaps change in the future!

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Hardy Griech, Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 25/1, D-72762 Reutlingen