[dev] Re: [cvs] commit: imp compose.php

[Keith A. Chayer]

Quoting Jon Parise <jon@csh.rit.edu>:

> On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 04:13:24PM -0600, Brent J. Nordquist wrote:
> 
> > > > As a side note, do you mean an IMP error?  Shouldn't an all-Cc:
> message be
> > > > legal?  It works in pine, for example... I can't think of a reason
> why it
> > > > should be prevented.
> > >  
> > > What do people think of this patch?
> > 
> > Hmm.  Well, I agree that a Cc:-only message is a little odd,
> > conceptually... but if that's what the user has specified, why mess
> with
> > it?  I guess my question is, what's the benefit from (or motivation
> for)
> > this patch?
>  
> IMP will generate a "sending message failed" error if the To: field is
> empty.  The above was my attempt to fix that particular case.
> 
> Alternatively, we can just let the To: line remain blank and change
> the test so that it allows for an empty To: line if there's a value in
> the Cc: line.

I like this idea--a CC: only message might be weird, but a BCC isn't--what if 
you don't want anybody to see anyone else you sent the message to?  If you 
*have* to put something in the to: field and everyone else's address in the BCC: 
field, everybody sees the one recipient.  I've had times where this is 
undesirable, and last I checked, this was still how IMP 
(2.2--honestly, I haven't checked 2.3) performed.

..Keith

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