[sylpheed:37311] Re: Email standard for BCC behaviour

[Gene Goldenfeld]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024, at 8:29 AM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:20:45 -0700
> Jeremy Cook <funjulietaco at jcook.la> wrote:
>
>
>> There's also this odd passage:
>> 
>> "When a message is a reply to another message... If a "Bcc:" field is
>> present in the original message, addresses in that field MAY appear in
>> the "Bcc:" field of the reply, but they SHOULD NOT appear in the "To:" or
>> "Cc:" fields."
>> 
>> I don't know what to make of this.
>
> 	It means that if you reply then your mail program is allowed to
> include the BCC that came in the original rather than having to filter it
> out or pay attention to its contents. It essentially assigns responsibillity
> for the Bcc: field and its contents to the sender and not the replier.
>

So this is determined by the sender’s program, e.g., Sylpheed and Gmail, and not the recipients’? Though hundreds of emails where most recipients have been bcc’d, I haven’t had reason to believe oltherwise, but I better be sure.

Gene

P.S. I don’t mind top or interleaved posting, as long as the reading makes sense and it helps facilitate the discussion.