Re: way to use Bcc: with mhmail?

[Paul Fox]

ralph wrote:
 > Hi Tom,
 > 
 > > Is there a way to Bcc: with mhmail?
 > 
 > Experiment with one of
 > 
 >     -headerfield 'bcc: Tom R <nmh@trodman.com>'
 >     -headerfield 'dcc: Tom R <nmh@trodman.com>'

Somewhat nintuitively, it's the latter "Dcc: address, address,..." that
duplicates what most mailers do with Bcc.

If you use MH's Bcc: header, the recipients get the message with
additional text that tells them they've received a Bcc.  Which is sort
of nice, but fairly unique behavior.

When sending to a group, as for an event invitation, I usually use a
Dcc header, with myself in the To header, to match common (in my
experience) practice.  If just copying my wife on something I'm
addressing to someone else, I use Bcc which makes it unambiguously
clear she wasn't a disclosed recipient.

paul
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