[sylpheed:37311] Re: Email standard for BCC behaviour

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024, at 8:29 AM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:20:45 -0700
> Jeremy Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> There's also this odd passage:
>>=20
>> "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."
>>=20
>> 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 responsib=
illity
> for the Bcc: field and its contents to the sender and not the replier.
>

So this is determined by the sender=E2=80=99s program, e.g., Sylpheed an=
d Gmail, and not the recipients=E2=80=99? Though hundreds of emails wher=
e most recipients have been bcc=E2=80=99d, I haven=E2=80=99t had reason =
to believe oltherwise, but I better be sure.

Gene

P.S. I don=E2=80=99t mind top or interleaved posting, as long as the rea=
ding makes sense and it helps facilitate the discussion.