--On 23 April 2010 20:57:12 +0100 "J.R.Haynes" <J.Haynes@???>
wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 at 16:57 +0100, Always Learning wrote
>
>> particularly when confronted with the fact that in 99.9999999999998% of
>> genuine emails, and in 100% of business emails, the 'To:' header is
>> present ?
>>
>
> I'm curious as to why you believe this to be the case. I just sent myself
> two messages using Outlook (a client with rather high use in business
> emails...), one with my address in Cc: and one with it in Bcc:. In both
> cases there was no To: header and in the Bcc: case no Cc: header either.
>
> Sending emails with all the addresses in Bcc: is not unusual and not just
> for legitimate 'marketing' emails. Think of an organisation running a
> training course sending joining instructions to all delegates for example.
All this is true, but it's trivial to insert a To: header if none exists.
Is there a reason why one should not insert a To: header containing the
list address? It would usually be helpful to recipients.
> I also checked with the alpine client and again there is no To: if Cc: is
> present. If Bcc: was the only recipient field used then by default alpine
> does add a To: undisclosed-recipients:; header but that can be switched
> off.
>
> Oh and this message nearly ended up with only a Cc: header as I did
> reply-all which on alpine puts the original sender in the To: field and
> all other addresses (i.e. the list in this case) in Cc:. I then removed
> your direct address as you are on the list. While writing the message I
> realised that perhaps I had better move exim-users to the To: line for
> this particular situation!
>
>
>
> Jonathan
>
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