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[#12675] remove Bcc lines when forwarding messages
Summary remove Bcc lines when forwarding messages
Queue IMP
Queue Version 6.1.4
Type Enhancement
State Feedback
Priority 1. Low
Owners
Requester thpo+horde (at) dotrc (dot) de
Created 09/12/2013 (4262 days ago)
Due
Updated 09/25/2013 (4249 days ago)
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Resolved
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Patch No

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09/25/2013 06:19:11 PM Michael Slusarz Comment #4 Reply to this comment
I think Bcc is an exception because it would never be a real header 
of a real message.
It *shouldn't* be.  But that doesn't mean it might never leak through. 
  And we can't go munging headers.
We only have them in drafts and sent mail, so these messages aren't 
even "as-is" the actually sent messages.
You are assuming that sent mail and drafts are static.  They aren't.   
There is no 100% foolproof way of determining whether a message was 
actually sent by IMP or not.

Which leads me back to the previous suggestion: The user has to 
proactively make a choice whether to strip the header out or not.
09/17/2013 07:35:58 AM Jan Schneider Comment #3 Reply to this comment
I think Bcc is an exception because it would never be a real header of 
a real message. We only have them in drafts and sent mail, so these 
messages aren't even "as-is" the actually sent messages. We remove 
that header when sending those messages, so we can as well justify to 
remove it if we forward them.
09/17/2013 05:05:36 AM Michael Slusarz Comment #2
State ⇒ Feedback
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Forwarded messages can't be munged.  Period.  They HAVE to be sent 
as-is.  That's the entire point of forwarding.

The only viable options are either:
1) Don't save Bcc information in forwarded message. (But now there is 
no complete record of the recipients of the message).
2) Warn user that Bcc information appears in the headers of a 
forwarded message.
09/12/2013 08:04:09 AM thpo+horde (at) dotrc (dot) de Comment #1
Priority ⇒ 1. Low
Patch ⇒ No
Milestone ⇒
Queue ⇒ IMP
Summary ⇒ remove Bcc lines when forwarding messages
Type ⇒ Enhancement
State ⇒ New
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when a message (from sentmail folder) is forwarded, any existing Bcc 
header should rather be removed or at least a warning being prompted 
to the user

currently a message being forwarded as an attachment remains untouched 
an thus may contain Bcc lines that are thought to remain secret

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