Subject: BLINDing in Pine..

From: [email-masked] (Glen Wooten)
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 22:37:34 GMT

I'm using version 3.89 of Pine for Unix, and I've come across a possible 
bug.  When using the blind (Bcc:) command, it appears to blind addresses 
SITE specific, as opposed to ADDRESS specific (with the exception of the 
syste it's running on (in this case, Netcom.)  If i was to be sending 
duplicate copies of mail to 2 people on Netcom, 2 people on GEnie, and 2 
people on CompuServe, the people on GEnie & Compuserve would see the 
other person on thier network that got the mail, but none of the other 
addresses.  The people on Netcom would see no other addresses.

Has anyone else run into this?  Is this a bug, or am I missing something 
not shown in the manual?
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 08:19:23 -0700 (PDT)

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Some Mail Transport Agents (MTAs) will add an "Apparently-To:" header on mail
that arrives for someone not listed in the To: or Cc: headers.  Pine will
suppress this header, but many other mail programs do not.  It partially
defeats the purpose of Bcc:, but the MTA's behavior is not under our
control... 

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From: [email-masked] (Paul Robinson)
Date: 29 May 1994 10:03:18 GMT

Glen Wooten ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I'm using version 3.89 of Pine for Unix, and I've come across a possible 
: bug.  When using the blind (Bcc:) command, it appears to blind addresses 
: SITE specific, as opposed to ADDRESS specific (with the exception of the 
: syste it's running on (in this case, Netcom.)  If i was to be sending 
: duplicate copies of mail to 2 people on Netcom, 2 people on GEnie, and 2 
: people on CompuServe, the people on GEnie & Compuserve would see the 
: other person on thier network that got the mail, but none of the other 
: addresses.  The people on Netcom would see no other addresses.

: Has anyone else run into this?  Is this a bug, or am I missing something 
: not shown in the manual?

This is a function of the mailer on Compuserve and Genie (and MCI Mail 
too, they do the same thing ) in that ALL local recipients of a message see 
each other.  This is a standard function of those systems.

I got used to it on MCI Mail some three years ago when I first signed up 
for it; I consider it a "feature" rather than a "bug".  

This is something that the mailers on THEIR systems do, even if you use a 
script to pipe a dialog to sendmail, pine has no control over it.

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