Send email via Z-Push exposure the cc/bcc address into To field

trongnghia203

Dear all friend,

I have successfully installed Z-Push 2.4 on Ubuntu 16.04 Server. It’s working well, and it can also sign-in Active Sync on iPhone, MS Outlook Windows.

But I found the problem when sending email via iPhone or MS Outlook
for example:
Compose email:
To: userA (at anydomain)
CC: userB (at anydomain)
BCC: userC (at anydomain)

All sending, and receiving is working very well, but the email show all userA, userB, userC in To field of email.

View Source:

To: **userA**, **userB**, **userC**
Subject: Stephen Hawking =?UTF-8?B?TOG6p24gNQ==?=
X-PHP-Originating-Script: 0:mail.php
Mime-Version: 1.0
From: **userA**
Cc: **userB**
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:05:36 +0700
Message-id: <001f01d3bc2c$04da13a0$0e8e3ae0$@lcl.infotechviet.com>
X-mailer: Microsoft Outlook 15.0
Thread-index: AdO8LAP6QbmSWoBmTz+JQlFUePe6Cg==
Content-language: en-us
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
 boundary="=_654603df34b930fe0c8bca893f044f94"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--=_654603df34b930fe0c8bca893f044f94
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="=_735cd54a1af52735039576c7e84ecc3c"

--=_735cd54a1af52735039576c7e84ecc3c
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

It’s normally working when sending email via webmail, or MS Outlook with IMAP, and ThunderBird with IMAP.
Could anyone has the same problem?

fbartels

Hi @trongnghia203 ,

which backend are you using with Z-Push. Is my guess correct that you are using the imap backend?

I just gave this a try with the Kopano backend and here only the actual recipient was included in the To line in the raw email. Recipients that are in CC or BCC are not shown in this line.

trongnghia203

Hi @fbartels ,

Thank you so much for your very quick response.
And yes, I do use the BackendIMAP. Could you please give more advice for this…

Regards,
Nghia

fbartels

Hi @trongnghia203 ,

sorry I am not really familiar with that backend. I did see https://stash.z-hub.io/projects/ZP/repos/z-push/browse/src/backend/imap/Mail/mail.php#151-153 in the code, which makes it seem like the mail() function of php is the culprit here.

trongnghia203

I hope someone will have the solution. Anyway, thank you very much, @fbartels … for reviewing my case.

Regards,
Nghia

Manfred

Hi Nghia,

actually the IMAP backend puts all the recipients together: https://stash.z-hub.io/projects/ZP/repos/z-push/browse/src/backend/imap/imap.php#2488-2498. This code was contributed by Francisco who made a lot of improvements and contributions to the IMAP backend, but I don’t know what was the reason doing it so.

Unfortunately as far as I know he’s not working on Z-Push contributions anymore. However you could try to contact him e.g. on github: https://github.com/fmbiete/Z-Push-contrib.

Manfred

trongnghia203

Hi @manfred ,

That is really a helpful information. Let me check it out. Not sure what could be done for this case. Maybe I need to change the Email Backend or find another solution for ActiveSync. Do you have any idea for that?

Thank you very much, @manfred!

Nghia

Manfred

Hi Nghia,

you could test different values for IMAP_SMTP_METHOD. If it’s the same regardless the IMAP_SMTP_METHOD then it should be changed in the IMAP backend. If you have PHP knowledge and would like to contribute a fix, we’ll gladly review it. There is a wiki page explaining how to contribute: https://wiki.z-hub.io/display/ZP/Development+guidelines.

Manfred

trongnghia203

Hi @manfred ,

Indeed, I just started learning the Python language. But I will try to get understood it as possible.

Thank you @Manfred , wish you have a great week.

Nghia

Manfred

Hi Nghia,

learning Python is of course very useful, but Z-Push is written in PHP, so Python knowledge will only be somewhat helpful.
Have a great week too.

Manfred