Subject: Undisclosed recipients

From: [email-masked] (SUZANNE FORTIN)
Date: 15 Jun 1996 05:14:24 GMT

Hi there

Is it possible to create a list with "undisclosed recipients" on Pine
3.91? If so, how? 

Please e-mail me

Thank you
Suzanne
[email-masked]

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 08:59:30 -0700 (PDT)

No; you need a later version.  (3.94 is the latest.)

-teg

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:35:11 +0100 (BST)

Ummmm....  Depending on what is meant by "undisclosed recipients" I
thought that even with Pine 3.91 it was possible to:

1.  Start composing your message.
2.  Put cursor on a header line and type ^R to see all the headers.
3.  Fill in your own e-mail address in the "To:" field.
4.  List the real recipients in the "Bcc:" field.
5.  Finish off the message and send it.

Terry's answer is correct in that with Pine 3.91 the "To:" field isn't
_automatically_ set to "undisclosed recipients" but the above method,
where you set it manually, should work OK.

Note that you can probably improve things even further by changing Step 3
to:

3.  Fill in the "To:" fields with the string "undisclosed recipients:;"
    (Be sure to include the ":;" -- this is some trickery to get the mail
    system to accept the field's value as a valid-but-non-existant e-mail
    address.)

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:40:29 -0700 (PDT)

Suzanne,
Mike is absolutely correct (as usual)!  I was indeed thinking of the
*automatic* handling of Undisclosed recipients...

-teg