Re: [Exim] Leaving bcc: headers in mail

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Tim Tassonis
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Leaving bcc: headers in mail
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Tim Tassonis wrote:

> Is there an option to preserve Bcc: headers(including the recipient, not
> an empty one) in local mails?


I think you may be under a misconception. There are very rarely any Bcc:
header lines in messages.

The only time Exim does anything with a Bcc: header is when it is called
from a local process with the -t option. In that case, it removes the
Bcc: header after it has taken recipients from it.

Exim does NOT remove Bcc: header lines from messages received from
elsewhere. But, as I said, most of the time they won't be there anyway.

> The reason is a setup where mail for a domain is received with exim, then
> stored for all users in a single mailbox file,


Possible solutions:

(1) Set envelope_to_add in order to put the recipients in an
Envelope-to: header line.

OR

(2) Deliver the messages in BSMTP format.

> and then retrieved by an
> Exchange Server using POP to store it for several Exchange Users.


Sounds as if you need (1) then. I don't suppose POP servers understand
BSMTP.

> is removed, Exchange will not deliver it to those users.


I don't grok Exchange. I am Microsoft challenged.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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