[imp] [Fwd: if no To:___ lines, all Bcc:___ lines become To:___ lines.]

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Ambrose Andrews <ambrosea at neurofractal.org>:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: if no To:___ lines, all Bcc:___ lines become To:___ lines.
> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:49:16 +1100
> From: Ambrose Andrews <ambrose at vrvl.net>
> To: imp at lists.horde.org
>
> Is this worthy of a bug report?
>
> Package: horde2
> Version: 2.2.3-6
> Severity: normal
>
> Composing mail with the horde, If the To: field is left blank, then all
> the Bcc: recipients end up being To: recipients, resulting in all these
> addresses being visible to all recipients.
>
> I think It'd be better if the user got an error message prompting them
> to put someone in the To: line, rather than silently moving all the Bcc:
> recipients into the To: category.

Sounds like you have a broken MTA.  Looking at IMP 3.2.3 (at least), IMP never
puts any Bcc addresses in to the To: header, even if To: and Cc: are 
empty.  So
if the message is being sent with Bcc addresses in the To: header, then
something is screwed up down the line from IMP/Horde.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder