Re: warn about a BCC field

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Well well. I just sent myself with gnus the following message
>
> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Subject: this
> To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> 
> Cc: Uwe Brauer <burrurr@gmail.com> 
> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:14:28 +0200 (48 seconds ago)
> Bcc: oub.oub.oub@gmail.com
>
> As you can see that is a BCC field.
>
> Now when I open in my oub.oub.oubGmail.com account the message and
> indeed the BCC field is gone. I did the same with thunderbird and the
> same behavior. Odd no?

No, mail user agents are supposed to strip the Bcc header before
sending, and that's what Gnus is doing, so everything works as it
should.

The whole point of the Bcc header is that isn't not supposed to be sent
out.

> I see your point concerning mailing list, but what's about the other use
> case I just mentioned? What would you do in such a situation?
>
> However I just realized that my code is not failsafe. 
>
> As it seems I can't trust that such a mail (where I am not in the TO/CC)
> would include a bcc field, and then my hack would fail.
>
> Couldn't we set a variable (gnus-for-the-careless-repliers) 
> but then it is not clear to me what to search for? Any ideas how to deal
> with that?

Just look for your email address in the headers.  If it's not there,
it's dangerous for you to do a wide reply on it.

> It seems that most people are either not very often in such a situation
> or are just more careful then I am.

I think so.  :-)

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