On Wednesday 24 October 2001 07:23am, you wrote:
> on 10/24/01 5:03 AM, Sevatio at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm just curious if any of you consider a "TO:" column as being important
> > for email clients.  Why won't some of the email readers (like Kmail &
> > Netscape/Mozilla) include this important "TO:" column?  It would allow me
> > to quickly spot if its junk mail or just know who it's addressed to.  I
> > currently use StarOffice for email but would rather use something fast
> > with this feature.
>
> Any email that was addressed to someone will have a "to:" header. Most spam
> will not address their email to anyone. Instead they place your email
> address in the bcc header. So technically an email like that isn't "to"
> anyone, although it is being blind carbon copied to someone. bcc is just
> like cc except no one but the sender knows who it was bcc'ed to.
>
> That is a very common and simple technique of spammers to make filtering
> them more difficult.
>
> Kmail does have a "to:" column, as does any email reader. It's what I use
> to filter mail from this mailing list into its folder.
>
> Matt
>
>

Matt, what version Kmail are you using and how did you get it to display the 
"TO:" column?

Sevatio

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