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Subject: Re: BCC posts being sent to list and others?
From: "Michael C. Berch" <mcb @ postmodern . com>
Organization: Postmodern Consulting, California USA
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 13:57:23 -0700
To: Bing WEN <wenbing @ statcan . ca>
References: <199904091602.MAA28291@statcan.ca>
Reply-to: mcb @ postmodern . com

Bing WEN wrote:
> 
> you may find the bcc addresses in the sendmail log.

In *whose* sendmail log? 

If user@site1 sends a message to list@site2 with bcc to user@site3,
there will be no mention of user@site3 in site2's mailer log, because
the bcc existed only in the SMTP envelope (or a temporary header) passed
from the mail client to site1's outgoing mailer.  The address will
appear in site1's mailer log, but that is unlikely to be of value to a
list manager at site2 except under extremely unusual circumstances.

If someone at another site asked me to research my mail logs for
addressee details of one of my users' outgoing messages, I'd probably
laugh at them.
(Unless there was some overriding legal reason for me to be interested,
of course.) 

-- 
Michael C. Berch
mcb@greatcircle.com / mcb@postmodern.com


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