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Bug #23798 Space not trimmed in Bcc and Cc parsing
Submitted: 2003-05-25 05:42 UTC Modified: 2003-07-23 11:10 UTC
Votes:5
Avg. Score:4.6 ± 0.8
Reproduced:5 of 5 (100.0%)
Same Version:5 (100.0%)
Same OS:5 (100.0%)
From: guidance at g dot yi dot org Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Mail related
PHP Version: 4.3.2RC4 OS: Windows 2000 pro
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-05-25 05:42 UTC] guidance at g dot yi dot org 
When using blank "To", and only Cc or Bcc to send an email, like below:

mail("", "the subject", 'message body',
     "From: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME\r\n"
    ."Reply-To: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME\r\n"
    ."BCC: somebody@server.com\r\n"
    ."X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());

the receiver mail server will complain user unknown error, if check the raw received mail, will like this:

......
X-Envelope-To: < somebody@server.com>
......
To:
......

Notice there's an extra space in X-Envelope-To header!
Anyhow, if "To" is not blank, the received X-Envelope-To is correct.
If don't leave space after the colon of Bcc and Cc, the problem could temporarily resolved.

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 [2003-05-25 07:11 UTC] guidance at g dot yi dot org 
Some mail servers don't accept blank To, so this problem can't appear. I'm just using Phorum and Mercury/32 mail server, then found this problem.
X-Envelope-To header also depends on the mail server. May not be created at all or other similar header.
 [2003-06-25 13:02 UTC] jharrell at dlc4me dot com 
I'm using a To: address in the mail() and a list of inner company emails under the Bcc: header... but I still get the SMTP Unknown user error... this error was not here in 4.2.3... but I can confirm that 4.3.2 does have problems with the Bcc and Cc headers... For now I guess I will send individual emails out. :(
 [2003-07-06 23:40 UTC] webmaster at e-xoops dot com 
Just spent 2 days on same problem under php 4.3.1 trying to send bcc & cc headers (i know they worked before).

This works:
Bcc:somone@somewhere.com,somone2@somewhere.com

This doesn't:
Bcc: somone@somewhere.com,somone2@somewhere.com

All other header fields seem to work ok as usual with the space after the :, only bcc/cc seem to be affected here.
 [2003-07-23 11:10 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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