Subject: More info on BCC and LCC

From: James Syme <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 20:42:26 -0500 (EST)

Pine-info provided the following steps To use Bcc and/or Lcc with
Pine...

> 1.  Upgrade to Pine 3.95

2.  Start composing a message.

3.  Put cursor on any header line of your message.

4.  Type ^R (Rich Headers), shown in the Command Menu at the bottom of the
    screen.

5.  Use the Bcc: and/or Lcc: fields thus revealed.>

What is the format distinction, or any others,  between BCC and LCC?  Is
each simply an ASCII list file of E-mail addresses placed in the
appropriate field? Finally, is each file list placed in the mail
directory to be accessed? Thanks for your response

Jim

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:45:38 +0000 (GMT)

The "Bcc:" header (Blind Carbon Copy) takes a list of e-mail addresses of
people to whom the message is to be sent.  Anyone listed in the Bcc field
receives a copy of the message, but this fact is not revealed to the
others, nor to those listed as recipients in the To or Cc fields.

However some mail delivery software may reveal the Bcc recipients as a
series of "Apparently-to:" headers added to the delivered message unless
at least one recipient is listed in the "To:" field.

Thus if you use Bcc then you should also make sure you have at least one
e-mail address present in the To field.  This could be your own perhaps,
or a special address of the form:

	Descriptive text name:;
eg,
	Various Recipients:;

(The important part is the ":;" at the end.)

The "Lcc:" field is designed to be used with Pine's Distribution Lists
(which can be set up in its Address Book).  Here you just type the
nickname of the distribution list into the Lcc field.  This "expands" to
the list of recipients, and the long descriptive name of the list is then
automatically placed in the To field, along with the magic ":;".

*** All this information is available in Pine's built-in help: just start
*** your message and give the ^R (Rich Header) command... then put your
*** cursor on one of the headers you want to learn about (eg, Lcc or Bcc)
*** and ask Pine for help by typing ^G (Get Help - shown in the Command
*** Menu at the bottom of the screen). 

The e-mail addresses must be typed in by hand into the header field, or
set up as a distribution list in your address book.  There is no direct
way to read a file's contents into these fields as a list of e-mail
addresses.

However that is not to say it can't be fudged: providing the file contains
a comma-separated list of e-mail addresses you can read it into the main
Message Text area (using ^R there to Read File) then cut (multiple ^K's or
a Mark-Move-^Kut) and pasted (unKut with ^U) into the appropriate header
field. 

However in the longer term you may want to look at setting up and using a
Distribution List within Pine's Address Book ("A" from the Main Menu
screen).

Cheers,

-- 
Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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