Bcc field viewable in Mutt generated e-mails

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Jul 8 04:44:24 PDT 2003


On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:22:26AM +0100, Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:04:47AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:45:27AM +0100, Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > This e-mail was bcc'd to freebsd at penguinpowered.org.uk
> > 
> > I don't see any evidence of that in the message headers (check the
> > message yourself on http://docs.freebsd.org).  What makes you think
> > otherwise?
> 
> I send a message from my work machine running mutt to me at mydomain.com
> 
> I also bcc that message to me at workdomain.com
> 
> I then retrieve the message on my home machine using fetchmail, filter
> it with procmail and open it in mutt
> 
> Viewing the headers, I can see 
> Bcc: me at workdomain.com 
> and this is on the mydomain.com address.
> 
> I only noticed it because someone pointed out to me that my messages
> were coming complete with Bcc fields.
> 
> I would guess that possibly the listmanager is removing the bcc field,
> so I have included you in this reply and bcc'd it to
> freebsd at penguinpowered.org.uk

I still see no bcc in this message.  The relevant headers are:

Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:22:26 +0100
From: Wayne Pascoe <freebsd at penguinpowered.org.uk>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Bcc field viewable in Mutt generated e-mails
Message-ID: <20030708092226.GA60262 at marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk>
References: <20030708084527.GB60097 at marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk>
+<20030708090447.GA34519 at rot13.obsecurity.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20030708090447.GA34519 at rot13.obsecurity.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i
X-System: FreeBSD i386 with kernel 4.8-STABLE
Sender: Wayne <wayne at penguinpowered.org>

Kris
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