[comp.mail.elm] elm, bcc and sendmail

jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) (12/21/88)

Elm requires an intelligent mailer program (e.g. sendmail) if
Bccs must be handled. Why? It should be possible to skip the
Bcc-header when writing the message out, but still include the
Bcc recipients in the envelope to the delivery program.
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rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) (12/21/88)

In article <2709@mhres.mh.nl> jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
+Elm requires an intelligent mailer program (e.g. sendmail) if
+Bccs must be handled. Why? It should be possible to skip the
+Bcc-header when writing the message out, but still include the
+Bcc recipients in the envelope to the delivery program.

This is how it was in earlier versions of ELM, i.e. ELM 2.1 did
not change ELM wrt bcc. I developed the change in ELM so that bcc's
could be used regardless of the mailing agent. As I understand
it, we ELM developers were chartered with producing our version of
ELM as only bug fixes - no enhancements. Consequently this bcc
"enhancement" will be available in ELM 2.2.
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