Subject: Suppressing some of the headers

From: [email-masked] (H. M. Hubey)
Date: 30 Oct 1996 13:11:19 -0500

How does one suppress the cc field on
receipt of pine mail  I get about 1200 names on the
cc field when I receive mail, and it's much much
longer than the message which is usually a few lines.

Is it possible to suppress the cc field on mail
received?

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 09:31:17 +0000 (GMT)

A far better solution (in that it will benefit all the recipients rather
than just yourself) is to contact the person who sends out the message and
ask them to use the Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) header to list the intended
recipients rather than Carbon Copy (CC).

CC shows the full list of recipients to each recipient; BCC suppresses the
list.

Note that to prevent some misconfigured mail delivery agents (the software
receiving and delivering the message on each recipients' system) still
revealing the list as a series of "Apparently-to" headers a "To:" header
should be supplied.  This could be the sender's own e-mail address (in
which case they'll get a copy of the message back themselves).
Alternatively the magic fake e-mail address along the lines of:

	Name of list:;

will work (Note the magical ":;")

In fact if they are using Pine 3.93 or later and a Distribution List they
can short-cut this to just putting the lists's nickname in the "Lcc:"
(List Carbon Copy) header field.  This will automatically fill in a
suitable "To:" field value derived from the full (descriptive) name of the
list, and use BCC to list the intended recipients.

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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