[TriLUG] sendmail question -ONoRecipientAction=Add-To-Undisclosed

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 12:49 PM, Jon Carnes wrote:

> Here is a moronic question for you:
>   Why don't you simply include a bogus or valid email address in the 
> TO:
> field... like all legitimate email does?

Jon, check out the RFC's... having no "TO" header is perfectly legit.  
It's especially useful when you're sending out something confidential, 
so confidential that the recipients shouldn't know the identity of one 
another.

> NBD and the mail doesn't look radioactive to the end-user or to spam
> filters.

IMHO if a spam filter traps a message solely based on the absence of a 
"TO" header, then the recipe has been poorly configured.

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Chris Hedemark
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