[sup] serial mail instead of Bcc

[Martin Bähr]

hi,

i'd like to be able to send an email to a number of people without sharing the
addresses in the To: or Cc: headers. i can do that with Bcc: but i'd like the
people to note that the mail is for them personally. and not something copied
to them as fyi.

so what i would like to do is to have a mail sent to each recipient separately,
with their own address on the To: field.

greetings, martin.
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[Matthieu Rakotojaona]

Post by Martin Bähr
hi,
i'd like to be able to send an email to a number of people without sharing the
addresses in the To: or Cc: headers. i can do that with Bcc: but i'd like the
people to note that the mail is for them personally. and not something copied
to them as fyi.
so what i would like to do is to have a mail sent to each recipient separately,
with their own address on the To: field.
greetings, martin.
--
eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life
--
chief engineer eKita.co
pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net societyserver.org
secretary beijinglug.org
mentor fossasia.org
foresight developer foresightlinux.org realss.com
unix sysadmin
Martin BÀhr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/

Hello Martin,

That's an interesting use case. Just out of interest, is there an
MUA/MTA out there that does it ?

There is a "sendmail" hook that takes the message object to be sent [1]
and does whatever logic to actually handle delivery of said message.
You can write a hook that loops over the addresses in Bcc and sets the
addresses as a recipient before shelling out to sendmail/msmtp/your MTA
of choice. Very roughly, something like that (untested):

```
# The hook is responsible for _all_ sendings, so we also need to manage
# the "standard" sendings

bcc = message.bcc
message.bcc = []

IO.popen("msmtp -t --read-recipient-from") {|p| p.puts message}

# We need to save anything we modify, because we will put it back at the
# end so that sup saves a relevant message internally
to = message.to
cc = message.cc

# A specialized message, only for (each of) you
message.to = []
message.cc = []

bcc.each do |recipient|
message.to = [recipient]
IO.popen("msmtp -t --read-recipient-from") {|p| p.puts message}
end

message.to = to
message.cc = cc
message.bcc = bcc
```

As I write this, I realize that messages can't be encrypted to the
specified email address. To people more familiar with hooks: I don't
presume methods in the Redwood module are available ? Is it possible to
call CryptoManager.encrypt in a hook ?

[1] https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/wiki/SendEmail