On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, at 12:55 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 9:23 PM Jesse Thompson <z...@fastmail.com> wrote:
>> __On Mon, Aug 7, 2023, at 10:54 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 8:00 PM Emanuel Schorsch 
>>> <emschorsch=40google....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
>>>> If there are not that many BCC recipients for a message then it is likely 
>>>> not necessary as the duplicate message counting is unlikely to have a 
>>>> negative impact. If there are a large number of BCC recipients for a given 
>>>> message then I think the solutions proposed in Wei's DARA draft are 
>>>> helpful: standardizing the way to indicate BCC/Forwarded-To and signing a 
>>>> separate copy of the message for each BCC recipient so that it can still 
>>>> be verified as direct mail.
>>> 
>>> Doesn't putting "invisible" recipients into an actual field like Bcc create 
>>> a privacy concern, i.e., they're no longer invisible?  You need to hope 
>>> that the agents in the handling chain that are supposed to delete that 
>>> field will actually do it, which presumes the entire deployed base will 
>>> adopt DARA in a reasonable period of time.
>> 
>> According to RFC 5322 it should be handled correctly by "but the recipients 
>> on the "Bcc:" line get a separate copy of the message containing a "Bcc:" 
>> line"
>> 
>> [...]
> 
> As you cited, RFC 5322 describes three ways that the "Bcc" field is typically 
> used.  You're talking about just one of those, and I'm not sure it's the most 
> common one.  In any case, I suggest that "should" is a bit of a leap, 
> especially given that the choice of which of the three to use is described as 
> "implementation dependent".
> 
> The second part of your citation confirms the risk to which I was referring.

I don't understand why it's a privacy issue that an individual recipient sees 
their own address in the Bcc header.

Jesse
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