Hello Nigel, On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:19:09PM +1300, Nigel McNie wrote: > >>From /etc/Muttrc: > > # Uncomment if your MTA does not strip Bcc: headers. > # (exim4 and postfix strip them, exim(3) does not.) > #unset write_bcc > > By default, I would expect that if I sent an e-mail and bcc'ed someone > in, then whoever I was sending the mail to wouldn't know. Given the > default MTA on debian is exim, sadly it seems that the default behaviour > is for this to happen though :( > > This is in contrast with how other MUAs in debian handle BCC. It's a > rather surprising default. > > I know the comment in the file says exim4 strips them. I'm assuming that > is a configuration setting, because my work's mailserver is not > stripping them and is exim4 (upgraded from exim3 some time ago as part > of an upgrade of debian). >
I too discovered this problem, not long ago when reporting[1] a bug against another package using the reportbug utility. reportbug Bcc's the sender, and as you can see in the headers of the report, the Bcc header is intact. I believe that this is a bug in the Debian Mutt's documentation, and that it is related to the Debian bug #304718[2] where the reporter claims that "Exim4 now correctly removes any Bcc: header." However, I could not find any confirmation of this in the Exim documentation. Quite the contrary: the Exim FAQ[3] and a post on the Exim User's mailing list[4] seem to suggest that Exim will _never_ remove the Bcc headers by default. The only time when it does is when the "-t" option is passed on the command line, but as far as I understand this is not done by default and has its drawbacks as well. Note: It seems that the unfortunate bug report referenced above also contains useful information on the real problem with Bcc handling in Mutt (as well as the solution) added _after_ the bug was closed. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;bug=473693 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304718 [3] http://wiki.exim.org/FAQ/Miscellaneous/Q5004 [4] http://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20040818.103934.6b0a3bfb.en.html Jānis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
