[sylpheed:37310] Re: Email standard for BCC behaviour

On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:20:45 -0700
Jeremy Cook <[email protected]> wrote:

> But I have in fact seen some programs (not Sylpheed) that disclose BCC
> addresses to other BCC recipients, which is a clear violation of the RFC.

	Or misinterpretation - or I've got it wrong which is certainly
possible.

> There's also this odd passage:
> 
> "When a message is a reply to another message... If a "Bcc:" field is
> present in the original message, addresses in that field MAY appear in
> the "Bcc:" field of the reply, but they SHOULD NOT appear in the "To:" or
> "Cc:" fields."
> 
> I don't know what to make of this.

	It means that if you reply then your mail program is allowed to
include the BCC that came in the original rather than having to filter it
out or pay attention to its contents. It essentially assigns responsibillity
for the Bcc: field and its contents to the sender and not the replier.

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