[SC-Help] Re: How did this find my mailbox

[Mike Easter]

Fred k wrote:
> I have looked at other messages. All of them have my name at emal.com
> somewhere in the header. This one and a few others do not. I relize
> that the to: field does not have to be me.

It is not necessary that your name appear anywhere in the header fields
which are accessible to you in mail you receive.

You can experiment with your own mailuser agent OE, which has a BCC
function entirely consistent with concealing the email address of those
BCC designated recipients from each other.  Altho' the OE BCC function
may not be identical with the function of ratware, it does serve to
demonstrate the function.

When you send a mail to various recipients, those which appear in the To
and CC will appear in those fields of the mail.  When you put recipients
into the BCC address field, the recipients do /not/ see those recipient
addresses which were placed in there.

If you send yourself a mail, and put nothing in the To or CC, but put
your own addy in the BCC, the received mail will not show you anywhere
in the headers.  The To will say 'undisclosed recipients'.

If you look back into the Sent folder for that mail, your Sent item will
show your address in the BCC.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin