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Date Published
Author
Julian Sequeira
Word count
495
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

An automated emailer script using Python MIME submodules was designed to send notifications while keeping recipient email addresses anonymous, but initially faced issues with the BCC functionality, as the addresses in the BCC field were still visible to recipients. The author initially set the "To" address to the sender's address and listed other recipients in the "Bcc" field, but this approach failed as the email headers still displayed the BCC addresses. Through further research, the solution involved omitting recipient addresses from the MIME header information and instead including them in the sendmail() function, ensuring that the addresses remain hidden from the recipients. This workaround effectively conceals recipient addresses, aligning with the intended functionality of anonymity.