Sunday, 20 July 2008

So remind me what the "B" is for in "BCC"?

Some of you may have received the very first gAttach! Email Newsletter yesterday. If you did, I owe you an apology! Despite the best of intentions, it seems that everybody's email addresses were still in the BCC field by the time they arrived in inboxes.

I didn't do anything out of the ordinary, so I'm a bit stumped why it happened. My only guess is that my web host's mail server forgot to strip them out when sending. I'll get on to my hosting company and figure out what's going on.

Apologies again!

UPDATE: The problem has been traced to the version of the webmail software (Round Cube) installed by my web host. Why not use Gmail? I just needed a fine level of control over the HTML used, which I can't quite get as easily with Gmail yet.

PS: The feedback is mainly good so far. All the reported glitches are in the same bit of code and are just around situations I hadn't foreseen. I'll hopefully get a new beta out any day.

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