[CLUE-Tech] BCC'd email question

[Kevin Cullis]

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 07:14:36PM -0700, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> >Can a BCC'd email be grep'd, i.e. can you see who's been BCC'd by
> >looking at the email file?
> 
> No, that's what the "B" in "BCC" means (Blind).  The BCC header is stripped
> out of the message, and the mail server uses it to construct the envelope.
> Remote mail servers do not necessarily know what other recipients are in
> the bcc, and if they do, do not pass it on to the end user.
> 
> Sean
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Sean,

That's what I thought, you've given me the technical answer I was
looking for. Thank you very much.

Kevin