Reply-all drops some original CC recipients

Terrence Chan

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Jul 19, 2003, 11:18:28 AM7/19/03

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Hi all,

I've noticed that when I receive a group e-mail that has multiple CC's
and want to reply-all, all but one of the CC recipients is being
dropped. For example, I got and replied to an e-mail with the
following headers this morning:

From: aa...@company.com
To: bb...@company.com
CC: cc...@company.com
CC: dd...@company.com (me)
CC: ee...@company.com
CC: ff...@company.com
CC: gg...@company.com

When I hit reply-all, I get:

To: aa...@company.com, bb...@company.com
CC: cc...@company.com

eeee, ffff and gggg were dropped (of course, I don't care that I was
dropped).

Any ideas? Thanks.

Mike

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Jul 19, 2003, 3:01:18 PM7/19/03

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Terrence Chan <terren...@telus.net> wrote in
news:7pnihv064a3jas2s3...@4ax.com:

Hmm, I just read through the rfc http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html
because I wasn't sure that multiple cc headers were allowed. I
couldn't find a place where that was stated explicitly, however I'm
pretty sure that it is not normal which is probably why Eudora is
only using the 1st one.

What email client originated the email w/ multiple cc headers?

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Terrence Chan

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Jul 21, 2003, 10:25:39 PM7/21/03

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On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:01:18 GMT, Mike <mlipp...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I'm
>pretty sure that it is not normal which is probably why Eudora is
>only using the 1st one.

Why in the world wouldn't multiple CC headers be allowed?

Am I just SOL, then?

Daniel Jacobson

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Jul 22, 2003, 4:03:09 AM7/22/03

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In article <d48phvctqdkks6qp8...@4ax.com>, terren...@telus.net says...

>> I'm pretty sure that it is not normal which is probably why Eudora is
>> only using the 1st one.

> Why in the world wouldn't multiple CC headers be allowed?
> Am I just SOL, then?

Try:
I assume you mean Multiple CC Recipients. Multiples are allowed,
if some are getting dropped, check the list for syntax errors.
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Over and Out
Daniel Jacobson

Mike

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Jul 22, 2003, 3:36:58 PM7/22/03

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dani...@iadfw.net (Daniel Jacobson) wrote in message news:<bfir3t$e...@library1.airnews.net>...

Actually no, he really meant multiple CC Headers. If you check out his
original post, he was receiving email which had multiple CC headers w/
1 recipient listed on each header, as opposed to what I believe may be
required by the RFC, that there be only 1 CC Header that contains
multiple recipients separated by commas.

Terrence Chan

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Jul 24, 2003, 5:17:05 PM7/24/03

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On 22 Jul 2003 12:36:58 -0700, mlipp...@yahoo.com (Mike) wrote:

>Actually no, he really meant multiple CC Headers. If you check out his
>original post, he was receiving email which had multiple CC headers w/
>1 recipient listed on each header, as opposed to what I believe may be
>required by the RFC, that there be only 1 CC Header that contains
>multiple recipients separated by commas.

Right. I'm running Eudora 5.2. Do later versions correct this by
chance?

Thanks.

Ogden Johnson III

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Jul 24, 2003, 5:43:24 PM7/24/03

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Terrence Chan <terren...@telus.net> wrote:

It's not a Eudora problem, as Mike was trying to tell you. Whoever is
sending *you* the emails with the wrongly formed CC:s is the one whose
email client needs to be updated. The proper form, for the example in
your OP, would be:

From: aa...@company.com
To: bb...@company.com
CC: cc...@company.com, dd...@company.com, ee...@company.com,
ff...@company.com, gg...@company.com

which would produce a "Reply to all" of:

From: dd...@company.com
To: aa...@company.com, bb...@company.com
CC: cc...@company.com, ee...@company.com, ff...@company.com,
gg...@company.com

Whoever aa...@company.com is, he/she needs to start using an RFC
compliant email client.

OJ III