Subject: Re: Removing "Undisclosed Recipients"

From: Andy Dustman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 15:53:57 -0400

Josh G Renzema wrote:
>         I seem to have muffed my pinerc file, and now every message
> that I send has a "Undislosed Recipients" line in the To: field - Any
> idea, short of nuking my pinerc file, about how to remove this?

If you did it, you are not alone. I have the same problem with PINE 3.93,
Linux 2.0. It always adds the header line: 

To: Undisclosed recipients: ;

even when there are obviously recipients (in the To: or Cc:). Not fatal, but
annoying.

-- 
Andy Dustman / Computational Center for Molecular Structure and Design / UGA
===== For PGP public key:  finger [email-masked] | pgp -fka =====
Sure, the Telecomm Act will create jobs: 100,000 new thought-cops on the net
http://charon.chem.uga.edu/~andy    mailto:[email-masked]    <}+++<

---

From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 12:09:09 +0100 (BST)

It is *important* that something is ALWAYS present in the "To:" field. 
(Some people try and send out messages to lists of people by just listing
the recipients in the "Cc:" or (better) "Bcc:" fields.)

HOWEVER when such a message arrives at its destination the delivery
software there MAY do funny things if no "To:" header was present.  The
worst case is when the "Bcc:" field was used to list the recipients, in
which case the delivery software MAY reveal the hidden list by converting
the recipients to a visible list of "Apparently-To:" headers.

To prevent these problems Pine 3.92 onwards always fills in the "To:"
field if you do not do so.  The default text it fills it with is
"Undisclosed recipients" (but you can change this in the Setup
Configuration screen).

You can override it on a poer message basis by filling in the "To:" field
yourself.  You could put a valid e-mail address there (eg, your own to
receive a copy yourself), or a string followed by the magic ":;" sequence
of characters (which then merely acts as a label).

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York, YO1 5DD, UK
Tel: +44-1904-433811  FAX: +44-1904-433740  http://www.york.ac.uk/~pmb1/

---

From: Andy Dustman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 11:05:23 -0400 (EDT)

> > even when there are obviously recipients (in the To: or Cc:). Not fatal, but
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Yeah, I know. I have been informed that this is a known 3.93 bug which
will be fixed in 3.94.