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From: geoffb@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Filtering problem (Bcc: bug?)
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Date: 26 Sep 90 17:18:13 GMT
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I recently set up a set of filters so that all the assorted consulting
mailing lists I am on don't flood my mail box.  So far so good but
I have discovered a strange behavior by the filter.

Several of the lists I am on have many members and when a user sends mail
to them the first person to reply to the users mail also Cc'c or Bcc's
to the mailing list so that no one else answers the question.

The filters I had set up were checking the "To:" field and I expected all the
responses to miss the filter because they would be too random users and
not the mailing list itself (as it was in the Cc: field).
Imagine my happy surprise when the filter started filtering mail that
matched the criteria in the Cc: field.  This made thigs all the
better so I was happy to let it go but then I noticed that mail that
was Bcc'ed was _missing_ the filter.  I also noticed that my elmrc file
weedout list did not include "Bcc:" but when I was reading mail
(or deliberately looking at the full headers for a message) the Bcc: field
never appears.

I've talked to the local Unix guru and looked through the manual to see if this
was a known bug or feature but no luck.

My goal:  To find a way to filter mail by checking the Cc: and Bcc: field
          in my .elm/filter-rules.
          To find out why the Bcc: field seems to disappear when I am
          reading mail (but not when I am composing mail).

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