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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Filtering problem (Bcc: bug?)
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.192722.27420@DSI.COM>
Date: 26 Sep 90 19:27:22 GMT
References: <24718@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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geoffb@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner) writes:
>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).
Hmm, sounds like a misunderstanding of Bcc. Bcc is Blind Carbon Copy,
it the recepient doesn't know that others are getting it, ie no record
is made of the people receiving it via bcc.  Thus the BCC list is not
part of the envelop and not available to Elm or Filter.  You cannot
see it when reading it because it is not there.  During composing,
it is faked so you can enter one, but it is stripped before the message
is sent.

As should be for blind carbon copy.
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