[Scspamcop] Re: General Spam Question

[Tim McGraw]

David Bolt wrote:
> Tim McGraw wrote:-
> 
>> BCC recipients aren't revealed in the "TO" header or in any other
>> headers BCC recipients might receive for obvious reasons.
> 
> Unless the mailer is severely broken. I have received mail with a nice
> long BCC: header with over 50 addresses in it.

Yowsa! Sounds like malware, and bad malware at that.

>> As to what "Many systems will reject any email which has no "TO"
>> recipient" means: some systems will not accept an email which has only
>> BCC recipients.
> 
> While others will let it pass through unmolested.

I was made aware of the problem sending press releases to reporters and 
industry analysts who specifically requested the information. A 
postmaster at one of the trade journals responded to my query on their 
NDR and told me that's how they had set up their mail system.