RE: [sendmail]- bcc?

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 17150
interpreted = N
texte = >>I'm trying to solve this puzzle also. The reason I need the bcc: is that I >>want to create an admin form for posting Listserve messages using ListStar. > >The new Emailer and WebCatalog let you specify as many extra headers as you >like, so simply add bcc=whatever to your usual list of subject=xx&to=yy > >Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Yes, Bcc works with the new Emailer. However, be careful of ...On 4/12/98 I posted: Subject: Emailer 2.1.1 delivers to bcc twice? >Hi all, > >I got tired of receiving multiple copies of emails sent by webcat, so I >decided to track it down. I figured that I had a duplicate email forward >or mailing list configured in EIMS to send myself multiple mails. > >Instead, I tracked it down to what appears to be either an Emailer 2.1.1 >or EIMS 1.2 bug. > >Any addresses in the Bcc: field of an email are sent to that user twice! > >I tried sending a bcc to several different accounts, and got the same >results. My mail server logs confirm that the message is destined for the >bcc: user two times. > >I switched my mail server in EmailerPrefs to a local unix server running >sendmail, and only received one copy. However, using Eudora Pro to send >the identical email with a bcc: header to both EIMS and the Unix host >results in only ONE delivery. > >Changing the header to Cc: results in only one mail being sent in all >cases (when the smtp host is EIMS 1.2). > >So does Webcat generate malformed email, or is EIMS 1.2 selectively >broken? I will test this with EIMS 2.1 as soon as I get back in the >office. > >Can anyone else provide additional data points before I chase my tail for >too long? > >Thanks, > >DaleI don't remember seeing any responses to this post (and I couldn't find any responses in the archives). Anyone else seeing this problem? Note that you may not be seeing the duplicates if you have Eudora configured to Delete duplicate messages in the Really Miscellaneous settings.Thanks,-Dale ________________________ ___________________________ | Dale LaFountain | mailto:dalel@dhorse.com | | MIS Director,WebMaster | http://www.dhorse.com/ | | Dark Horse Comics, Inc.| Phone: 503-652-8815 x324 | \________________________|___________________________/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. RE: [sendmail]- bcc? (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  2. RE: [sendmail]- bcc? (Kenneth Grome 1998)
  3. RE: [sendmail]- bcc? (Dale LaFountain 1998)
  4. RE: [sendmail]- bcc? (Britt T. 1998)
  5. RE: [sendmail]- bcc? (Grant Hulbert 1998)
  6. RE: [sendmail]- bcc? (Mark Anderson 1998)
  7. RE: [sendmail]- bcc? (Olin 1998)
>>I'm trying to solve this puzzle also. The reason I need the bcc: is that I >>want to create an admin form for posting Listserve messages using ListStar. > >The new Emailer and WebCatalog let you specify as many extra headers as you >like, so simply add bcc=whatever to your usual list of subject=xx&to=yy > >Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Yes, Bcc works with the new Emailer. However, be careful of ...On 4/12/98 I posted: Subject: Emailer 2.1.1 delivers to bcc twice? >Hi all, > >I got tired of receiving multiple copies of emails sent by webcat, so I >decided to track it down. I figured that I had a duplicate email forward >or mailing list configured in EIMS to send myself multiple mails. > >Instead, I tracked it down to what appears to be either an Emailer 2.1.1 >or EIMS 1.2 bug. > >Any addresses in the Bcc: field of an email are sent to that user twice! > >I tried sending a bcc to several different accounts, and got the same >results. My mail server logs confirm that the message is destined for the >bcc: user two times. > >I switched my mail server in EmailerPrefs to a local unix server running >sendmail, and only received one copy. However, using Eudora Pro to send >the identical email with a bcc: header to both EIMS and the Unix host >results in only ONE delivery. > >Changing the header to Cc: results in only one mail being sent in all >cases (when the smtp host is EIMS 1.2). > >So does Webcat generate malformed email, or is EIMS 1.2 selectively >broken? I will test this with EIMS 2.1 as soon as I get back in the >office. > >Can anyone else provide additional data points before I chase my tail for >too long? > >Thanks, > >DaleI don't remember seeing any responses to this post (and I couldn't find any responses in the archives). Anyone else seeing this problem? Note that you may not be seeing the duplicates if you have Eudora configured to Delete duplicate messages in the Really Miscellaneous settings.Thanks,-Dale ________________________ ___________________________ | Dale LaFountain | mailto:dalel@dhorse.com | | MIS Director,WebMaster | http://www.dhorse.com/ | | Dark Horse Comics, Inc.| Phone: 503-652-8815 x324 | \________________________|___________________________/ Dale LaFountain

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