Hi Emmerich
Thanks a lot for your help.
I too had similar thing in my mind but I don't know
how to write the envelope header to message header .
Will it require writing of new rule-set in sendmail
configuration file?
Please help me out.
regards
S. Tendulker
--- Emmerich Eggler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Glynn Clements wrote:
> >
> > shivanand prabhu tendulker wrote:
> >
> > > We are downloading our mails from a remote
> server
> > > using POP3 protocol and then distributing the
> mails
> > > using procmail. But procmail cannot process the
> Bcc
> > > copies of mail.
> >
> > Of course it can't. Any BCC: headers will be
> stripped out by the first
> > MTA which sees them. The whole point of "BLIND
> Carbon Copy" is that
> > the other recipients DON'T get to see who you
> BCC'd the message to.
> >
> > Why would you want these headers anyhow? Mail
> routing is supposed to
> > be based upon the ENVELOPE recipient address,
> which isn't going to be
> > found in any of the normal recipient headers
> (consider the messages
> > which you receive from this list; your email
> address doesn't appear in
> > any of the normal recipient headers).
>
> Hi
>
> this is not completely true. My sendmail environment
> stores the
> envelope field (rcpt to:) in the Received:-context
> in a line like
> (in my case):
>
> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> See an example below.
>
> This is not a privacy violation in the BCC-case,
> since only the
> intended recipient gets this message, and the last
> mta anyway
> needs to know, who this message was for.
>
> If you can, configure your last mta (or let it
> configure) to store
> a similar line in the header and use procmail
> against this line.
>
> This even works in a commercial environment: I've
> created a
> package that works like that for the biggest Swiss
> ISP.
>
> Regards
>
> Emmerich
>
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> MAA11468
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> 12:49:29 +0100
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