undisclosed-recipients, how to make e-mail say this for from?

dalek · 05-11-2004, 03:20 AM

I get e-mails on occasion that has the return address hidden with undisclosed-recipients instead of the real address. How do I do that? I am NOT a spammer I just try to keep it from being spread to everybody so I won't get spam.

I use KDE and Kmail, at the moment. I would like to convert to Mozilla-mail but can't figure out how to transfer old mail from Kmail to Mozilla. Got a answer to that to while we are here.

Thanks

dalek · 06-20-2004, 03:20 AM

No ideas uh?

Guess I'm stuck.

SBing · 06-20-2004, 03:41 AM

Do you reckon you could post the full headers of the e-mail which you have recieved. That'd give us a better idea of what your client was interpreting as an unknown from address :)

Steve

dalek · 06-20-2004, 04:21 AM

Took me a bit to find one. Stupid Kmail search missed it. Here you go.

Code:

Return-Path: <krikorannk@comcast.net>
 Received: from  rly-yd06.mx.aol.com (rly-yd06.mail.aol.com [172.18.141.70]) by air-yd04.mail.aol.com (v99_r4.8) with ESMTP id MAILINYD41-77c40c603712d8; Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:20:55 -0400
 Received: from  rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by rly-yd06.mx.aol.com (v99_r4.3) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYD66-77c40c603712d8; Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:20:33 -0400
 Received: from kirkor (pcp05918898pcs.derbrn01.mi.comcast.net[68.40.154.188])
          by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with SMTP
          id <2004060818203001500mjpcqe>; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:20:30 +0000
 Message-ID: <002501c44d86$060d2e20$0a00a8c0@chn.comcast.net>
 From: "krikor" <krikorannk@comcast.net>
 To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>   <<<<<<<-----------------------------------------This is it!!!
 Subject: Reason for oil Shortage
 Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 14:25:48 -0400
 MIME-Version: 1.0
 Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0022_01C44D64.7E4C1440"
 X-Priority: 3
 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409
 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409
 X-AOL-IP: 204.127.198.39

I put a "this is it" to point to it. How they do that??

Thanks

SBing · 06-20-2004, 04:50 AM

Hmm, I think this is a case of purely using the BCC field.

1) Compose Message
2) Ignore the "To" field
3) Fill in the address you want to send it to in the "BCC:" field.

That will leave the To: field blank...hopefully.

As you can see form the headers, the sender is using Outlook. I don't know if Kmail will let you do that, I know Mozilla (and Mozilla Thunderbird) let you just use the BCC field; I use it all the time.

:)

Steve

Edit: e-mail me (using the button below) your e-mail address, I'll try and send you an e-mail like this to see if it works :)

dalek · 06-20-2004, 04:59 AM

e-mail sent. Curious now.

dalek · 06-20-2004, 05:01 AM

I got this when I tried to send one to myself as BCC.

Quote:

You must specify at least one receiver in the To: field.

Guess that didn't work.

Later

amosf · 06-20-2004, 05:18 AM

Some mailers must allow it... But KMail doesn't seem to :-)

dalek · 06-20-2004, 05:42 AM

Works in Mozilla though. I sent one to myself as BCC and it says undisclosed recipient.

Now I have got to switch to Mozilla mail. Anybody know how to transfer them over?

SBing · 06-20-2004, 06:22 AM

lol, well I've sent you an e-mail anyway :P, it should get there as you found out, without a "To:" field.

Good luck with exporting,

Steve

dalek · 06-20-2004, 06:37 AM

It did. I need to switch to Mozilla now. I hate to loose all my old e-mails though. I also hope it has filters. I love those filters.

Now we know.

Thanks