Bcc field viewable in Mutt generated e-mails

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Tue Jul 8 11:17:10 PDT 2003


Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> If I send an e-mail in mutt and bcc some recipients, I seem to be able
> to see the BCC headers in the received e-mails. Now to my mind, this
> defeats the object of Bcc.

You're quite right.

> This e-mail was bcc'd to freebsd at penguinpowered.org.uk

No BCC: header made it this far, not surprisingly-- the FreeBSD MX's would trim it.

> Can anyone tell me how to disable this? Is this a mutt issue or an exim
> issue ?

exim, I would think, although that might depend on whether mutt is calling exim 
via the command line, or sending mail via SMTP.

-- 
-Chuck




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