On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:29:33PM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote:
| Lately I've been playing a little with sending mail to myself
| (great fun, that!:)). I'm using postfix and it works perfectly.
| I've found out that if I send mail using "sendmail -f foo -F bar
| root" to rewrite headers there's an effect I didn't plan: Here a
| sample header.
| 
| sendmail -f "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -F foo root gives:
| 
| >From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Mon Jun 24 22:27:43 2002
| Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:27:42 -0100 (GMT+1)
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (foo)
| To: undisclosed-recipients:;
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 
| What's that doing there?

It is a way of indicating "Bcc".  I guess postfix adds that if you
don't have a To: header already.  (it's finishing the message for you
so that it is a legal messgae)

(FYI, the Outhouse does it wrong, and will always get rejected by
exim's RFC(2)822 syntax checks if you enable them)

-D

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