Last modified: 2009-03-23 02:55:16 UTC
Rjd0060 reported the following in the tech_channel today: <Rjd0060> On daily-article-l, we have it set to hide the sender of the post but for some reason it is showing the senders email address in the BCC field. He/she forwarded my such an email and it contains an bcc:-field. As far as I understand RFC 5321 Appendix B all BCC-Fields should be removed. I'm not sure if the client, the first-email-server or the wikimedia-server makes the mistake but I think that the wikimedia-server (or mailman) should filter it nevertheless. This is the important part of the header (I alienate the bcc-adress): Message-ID: <49c6d237.1c05d00a.6874.ffffd53d@mx.google.com> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:05:11 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: daily-article-l@lists.wikimedia.org Bcc: mrzmanwikimailXXXXX@gmail.invalid From: English Wikipedia Article of the Day <daily-article-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikipedia] March 23: Proserpine (play) X-BeenThere: daily-article-l@lists.wikimedia.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: dal-feedback@wikimedia.org Sincerly, DaB.
Okay, after reading http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-February/190540.html I've updated the script that sends the email. Apparently the proper way to use a bcc header is to not actually use it, or send 2 separate messages, one without the Bcc header to all the people on To: and Cc: lists, and the other with all the headers to the Bcc recipients. Internet standards FTW :\ Marking as Fixed for now, feel free to reopen if we still want to look into having the Wikimedia email servers strip the header (since no one else seems to bother doing this, including Google).
