dce@mips.UUCP (David Elliott) (11/14/87)
I run MH 6.4 with sendmail, and I noticed a slight problem
today.
We have a mail alias called "everyone", and it is quite annoying
when someone sends out a message to which people using Berkeley
mail (or mailx for you ATT-types) respond using 'r', which
generates replies to everyone.
In order to avoid this happening, I send my "everyone" messages
using "Bcc: everyone" and no "To:" line.
Now, MH deletes the Bcc: line and sends the message to sendmail,
which sees that there are no recipient fields (to, cc, bcc, and
apparently-to), and generates an Apparently-To: line for each
of the people in the Bcc: list. In other words, a lone Bcc: is
no longer blind.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to make MH not do this? Maybe
it should be part of the configuration for sendmail, since sendmail
handles Bcc: already.
Also, if anyone has a similar problem with "everyone"-type aliases,
I have a shell script called "remail" that can be used to edit
message headers automatically, so nobody has to change their
style.
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David Elliott dce@mips.com or {ames,decwrl,prls}!mips!dce