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From: frandan on 12 May 2010 17:38
Need to separate messages I am copied on with messages sent directly to me.
From: VanguardLH on 12 May 2010 18:11
frandan wrote:

> Need to separate messages I am copied on with messages sent directly to me.

Logically there is no difference between the To and Cc headers. Either can
be used to specify the recipients. Neither of them are used to actually
specify the recipient to the mail server. The To, Cc, and Bcc fields are
merely presented to you for organizational purposes. Your e-mail client
compiles an aggregate list of recipients from these *fields* in its UI and
then sends a separate RCPT-TO command to your mail server for each
recipient. The recipient never gets to see those RCPT-TO commands (and
you'll only see them if you have logging enabled). In fact, the recipients
need never be indentified in the To and Cc headers (the Bcc *field* should
not create a Bcc *header* in your outbound e-mails). Those are part of the
data that makes up your message and sent in a following DATA command. They
can contain any values or none at all which may or may not match the list of
recipients specified in the RCPT-TO commands. So you may get e-mails
delivered to you that do not have you identified in either the To or Cc
header.

"sent directly to me". And what does that mean? That you are listed in the
To header (which is *data* inserted by the sender and may not match on the
RCPT-TO commands that were used to send that e-mail)? If so, just define a
rule that looks for an absence of your e-mail address in the To header,
something like:

Move to Junk folder
Except if <yourmail> in recipient's address
From: Bob I on 13 May 2010 08:21
Rules and Alerts will allow Identifying the CC messages.

frandan wrote:
> Need to separate messages I am copied on with messages sent directly to me.

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