From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: undisclosed-recipients
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 20:56:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87va1sfdho.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pns0hld8.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu>
"Garreau, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu> writes:
> I’d say use Bcc, which possibly won’t be replicated among bcc’ed
> people, while putting “undisclosed-recipients” in the To: fields. It
> will be bogus but your mail client/server will typically notice it
> itself.
>
> However putting “undisclosed recipients” in “To:” when there’s no
> mailing list address seems a common convention among spammers and some
> mail-listing software and features from mail clients (already received
> news from friends like this): do you know where do that come from?
> maybe to paliate the fact the “To” is mandatory according mail RFCs?
> Is there a RFC talking about “undisclosed recipients”?
>
> Because it is always that two words, sometimes with a dash, sometimes
> without, sometimes with semi-colon, sometimes not, etc.
>
> Any idea?
I always thought it was added automatically by a MTA somewhere if you
left the To: field blank. I don't think anyone types it in there manually.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-10 4:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-08 13:23 undisclosed-recipients Uwe Brauer
2019-02-09 18:23 ` undisclosed-recipients Garreau, Alexandre
2019-02-10 4:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2019-02-10 17:51 ` undisclosed-recipients Uwe Brauer
2019-02-10 19:09 ` undisclosed-recipients Adam Sjøgren
2019-02-10 20:52 ` undisclosed-recipients Andreas Schwab
2019-02-10 23:15 ` undisclosed-recipients Eric Abrahamsen
2019-02-11 19:09 ` undisclosed-recipients Uwe Brauer
2019-02-11 19:12 ` undisclosed-recipients Adam Sjøgren
2019-02-11 20:37 ` undisclosed-recipients Uwe Brauer
2019-02-11 20:43 ` undisclosed-recipients Adam Sjøgren
2019-02-11 21:30 ` undisclosed-recipients Andreas Schwab
2019-02-11 21:41 ` undisclosed-recipients Adam Sjøgren
2019-02-11 22:19 ` undisclosed-recipients Uwe Brauer
2019-02-18 21:07 ` undisclosed-recipients Uwe Brauer
2019-02-18 21:26 ` undisclosed-recipients Adam Sjøgren
2019-02-11 22:20 ` undisclosed-recipients Uwe Brauer
2019-02-11 22:29 ` undisclosed-recipients Uwe Brauer
2019-02-14 19:53 ` undisclosed-recipients Adam Sjøgren
2019-02-14 20:03 ` undisclosed-recipients Adam Sjøgren
2019-02-11 22:18 ` undisclosed-recipients Uwe Brauer
2019-02-14 19:58 ` undisclosed-recipients Adam Sjøgren
2019-02-11 19:18 ` undisclosed-recipients Adam Sjøgren
2019-02-11 19:03 ` undisclosed-recipients Uwe Brauer
2019-02-11 19:08 ` undisclosed-recipients Adam Sjøgren
2019-02-11 20:33 ` undisclosed-recipients Uwe Brauer
2019-02-11 19:10 ` undisclosed-recipients Eric Abrahamsen
2019-02-11 19:14 ` undisclosed-recipients Adam Sjøgren
2019-02-10 17:54 ` undisclosed-recipients Uwe Brauer
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