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Date:      Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:06:30 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject:   Re: uucp user shell and home directory
Message-ID:  <20011002140630.B310@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110021306230.92100-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:09:43PM -0700
References:  <20011002110758.A310@blossom.cjclark.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110021306230.92100-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:09:43PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:

[snip]

> > Any special processing of 'BCC' takes place at the sender's end. There
> > is nothing special a receiver needs to (or could ever be trusted to)
> > do.
> 
> this is not true at all.
> BCC requires that all intemediate stages have separate 
> handling of the header, and the address list.

Ah. I understand what that was supposed to mean now. The way I think
of SMTP working I think of the BCC recipient being the just MAIL TO
and not in the mailed file, the DATA. Obviously, you are correct, the
MAIL TO is stored temporarily in a spool file. I've spent too much
time talking to SMTP servers with telnet.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

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