OT: Bug (or feature?) in (old) kmail: "Undisclosed Recipients" (was: Re: Which MTA for from-based smarthost selection, local delivery and queuing?)

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

On Thursday, September 08, 2022 10:54:20 AM rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> Sorry, this is a test email.  Not sure how to do it "off list" (more
> explanation later, maybe)

Interesting.

Sometimes when I'm working on a reply to an email, I try to "disable" the 
address so that I won't accidentally send it before I intend to (either fat 
fingering something or forgetting that I meant to cover something else).

I do it in various ways.  In a recent post that started in this thread (unless 
the thread got "unthreaded"), I attempted to disable the address by inserting 
a space after the @ in the debian-user address.

I forgot about that, clicked send, and the email actually got sent, but the 
From: was shown as "Undisclosed recipients".

I don't know whether I should consider that a bug or a feature ;-) But I'll 
disable email addresses some other way in the future.

Because it is an old version of kmail, the same behavior might not occur in 
newer versions.

-- 
rhk

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