Re: [exim] RFC: submission mode should strip BCC header?

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Author: Viktor Dukhovni
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] RFC: submission mode should strip BCC header?
> On Sep 26, 2019, at 12:50 PM, Evgeniy Berdnikov via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
>
>> at least one MUA strips the
>> BCC headers before submitting the message, but fails to do so when
>> "resending" the message. (I'm talking about Mutt, and its "bounce"
>> capability).
>
> Because "bounce" function for Mutt means "forward this mail as it is",
> it's not a regular submission, isn't it?


It is still submission, not relay. The message gets new ("Resent-")
Date, Message-Id, From, ... FWIW, Postfix drops top-level (not
attachedas message/rfc822) Bcc headers, so there's some precedent
for that behaviour.

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    Viktor.