--On 23 April 2010 20:57:12 +0100 "J.R.Haynes" <[email protected]> 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 > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > J. R. Haynes > Senior Network Specialist > > IT Department, e-mail: [email protected] > Bld 63, > Cranfield University, Tel: Bedford (01234) 754205 > Wharley End, Bedford (01234) 750111 Extn > 4205 Cranfield, Fax: Bedford (01234) 751814 > Beds., > MK43 0AL. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
