Bug 33653 - bcc: without to: field should be valid
Summary: bcc: without to: field should be valid
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Other
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Karl-Heinz Zimmer
URL:
Keywords:
: 61307 63300 73728 80843 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2001-10-13 10:48 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2004-05-13 10:54 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Unknown 2001-10-13 10:46:26 UTC 
(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           kmail
Version:           KDE 2.2.1 
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
Compiler:          Not Specified
OS:                Not Specified
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

I would like to be able to send a mail to different users without them knowing it of each other. I.e. a mail with ONLY BCC's and no "TO" should be valid. Don't know if this behaviour is according to any standards or so...

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
Comment 1 Unknown 2003-02-11 11:37:23 UTC 
This bug still seems to be in KMail 1.5. Please remove it. Other mail-readers allow 
bcc-only mails, too!
Comment 2 patrick 2003-07-03 05:41:54 UTC 
As a side note (current CVS as of 26062003) entering a single ";" into the 
To: field allows me to send a message with only BCC recipients (didn't test 
other characters...), so there seems to be no real technical reason for the 
current state... 
 
Patrick
Comment 3 Ingo Klöcker 2003-07-16 19:07:56 UTC 
*** Bug 61307 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 John Beadle 2003-08-15 15:58:26 UTC 
It appears that this bug (#33653) is not assigned to anyone. Also, the 
"workaround" noted in comment #2 above results in a bounce (undeliverable) 
from the mail server.

Thanks,
John
Comment 5 Ingo Klöcker 2003-08-27 15:31:25 UTC 
*** Bug 63300 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Oded Arbel 2003-11-23 14:37:44 UTC 
Other email clients automaticly put the sender's email in the To field when there is only a Bcc field (and don't use it in the RCPT command, of course).
Comment 7 Lucius Chiaraviglio 2003-11-28 03:15:45 UTC 
Putting the sender's e-mail in the To field shouldn't be necessary, though -- for instance, both NetScape Messenger and MicroShaft Outhouse Excess don't require this.
Comment 8 Ingo Klöcker 2004-01-29 10:27:47 UTC 
*** Bug 73728 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Don Sanders 2004-05-05 03:17:18 UTC 
*** Bug 80843 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Karl-Heinz Zimmer 2004-05-12 21:46:28 UTC 
done.
According to RFC 2822 it is allowed to specify a "group" of mailboxes
containing zero entries.
So we let KMSender use a "Undisclosed.Recipients: ;" specification
when it gets to send a mail with empty To header.
Of course KMComposer will still reject attempts to send mails with
no recipients at all: there must be either a To or a CC or a BCC recipient.
Comment 11 Norberto Bensa 2004-05-13 05:05:39 UTC 
FIXED on KDE_HEAD, KDE_3_2_BRANCH, or both?

Thanks,
Norberto
Comment 12 Karl-Heinz Zimmer 2004-05-13 10:54:55 UTC 
Just KDE HEAD, but backporting (if someone wants to do it) should be no problem.