Email bungle

[hkriffraff]

I was drafting a very important email with 5 attachments from my work computer and emailed it to my own address. Then I completed it with Apple Mail on my Powerbook at home, chose message-redirect (or is it resend?) and put the addresses of 3 recipients and CC'd myself.

When I came to work this morning, the message was in my Inbox, but the 3 recipients weren't listed in the "To:" line. The message headers read:

To: *my work email*
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730)
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-4-967378236
Resent-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 02:43:34 +0800
Message-Id: <3A36C755-EB29-44ED-9DDB-29CFD324989A@globalboard.com>
Cc: *my own email*
Resent-To: *recipient 1's email address*,
*recipient 2's email address*, *recipient 3's email address*
From: *my email address*
Subject: Thank you note and samples
Resent-From: *my email address*
Resent-Message-Id: <F44D1757-CFAD-4469-8D4C-EF647626617F@globalboard.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 01:16:43 +0800
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730)

Does this mean that the message has been sent to the 3 recipients? I'm reluctant to ask them directly, because this concerns a job interview and I don't want to appear incompetent!

[ITASOR]

Resent-To: *recipient 1's email address*,
*recipient 2's email address*, *recipient 3's email address*

That's who it was sent to. I think it just separates you from them.

[hkriffraff]

Thanks a bunch! I wonder why they wouldn't be listed in the "To:" field, since that's where they entered their addresses?

[Makosuke]

I can't speak for this particular program, but although some e-mail programs show all the addresses in the "To" field, others only show the first one.

I wonder if Mail is smart enough to only give each recipient its own "To" field and hide the others elsewhere in the header--that would certainly reduce the chances of messages getting flagged as spam (which a "To" field containing multiple addresses or addresses that don't match yours will frequently do).