On 11/04/2015 08:10 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Dick Steffens wrote: > >> Lately I've been getting s.p.a.m that comes with a from, but no to >> field. It only matters because this account gets e-mail forwarded to >> it from my old Comcast account. Some of the s.p.a.m I get from the >> old account comes with the old address in the to field. As far as I >> know, I don't get much, if any, s.p.a.m addressed to this account. I >> use Thunderbird, and I tried looking at it with all headers, as >> opposed to normal, but there's still to field. >> >> Is that condition -- no to field -- useful for some legitimate purpose? > > In organizations without any low-overhead mechanism for maintaining > group mail lists, people will often resort to using a Bcc: header with > scads of addresses. Often those folks with put themselves in th To: > header, but sometimes it's left blank. > > That's the only remotely legitimate use I seen of headers as you > describe them.
Thanks. I didn't think there would be a good reason. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
