On Saturday 14 January 2012 18:54:57 Werner Flamme wrote:
I understand your example. But... in most companies, your client will not connect to MXes directly. Instead, you use your company's mail relay server (maybe someone wants to add this nonsense "confidential" footer, or the firewall simply does not allow direct mailing) and the relay server contacts the MXes.
Ah, brain is back (I hope)! Of course your client sends all those recipient addresses to the relay server, the relay "bundles" them and connects to the appropriate MXes. Is this correct?
Yes, exactly. Your client connects to the relay as though it were the final destination, and it then handles the outgoing connections, but the contents of the email never changes, and the bcc info never comes near it, that stays in the envelope
Yes, and Thunderbird (at least at some version) displays all the recipients, and you might have a guess now, why you are reading the mail, since you were not in the recipient list :-) And when there is no recipient in the mail at all (because some braindead sender only used bcc), you get "undisclosed-recipients;" shown in TB.
Exactly
Yes, the admin, human brain and so on... Do you know any mail admin, who has even got the time to look at this? ;-)
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