Re: storing the Bcc field in undisclosed-recipients messages

[Pablo Marín Ramón <pabmara@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Mutt writes out the BCC header by default. The only reason it would 
> not do so is if you have unset the $write_bcc variable. The only 
> reason you should do that is if you have an MTA that does not strip 
> off Bcc headers (e.g. exim4). Now, strictly speaking, mutt is allowed 
> put the Bcc header in the FCC copy of the mail regardless of your MTA, 
> but it looks like it doesn't if $write_bcc is unset (you may want to 
> take that up with the mutt-dev list).
> 
> What MTA do you use? And why are you unsetting $write_bcc?

This was the problem:

  $ grep bcc /etc/Muttrc 
  unset write_bcc

It's justified, since the system (Debian 3.1) uses Exim as its
default MTA (I changed it to Postfix).

Thanks for answering this trivial question I could have answered
for myself grepping the manual.