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BCC -and email

  • 10-03-2005 11:41am
    #1
    dbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭


    hi all,
    is there anyway to find out who is bcc'd on an email, this information must be part of the message content that is sent and recieved. is there any way to access it?

    thanks


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  • #2
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    dbyrne wrote:
    hi all,
    is there anyway to find out who is bcc'd on an email, this information must be part of the message content that is sent and recieved. is there any way to access it?

    thanks

    What exactly are you trying to do?

    - Sully


  • #3
    hefty_langer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 539 ✭✭✭hefty_langer


    have a dig around the message headers, I think it may be in there somewhere


  • #4
    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    I don't think there is a way to see BCCs, it is 'Blind' CC after all, the whole point of it is that people who were on the to: and cc: lists can't see who it was bcc'd to.


  • #5
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    stevenmu wrote:
    I don't think there is a way to see BCCs, it is 'Blind' CC after all, the whole point of it is that people who were on the to: and cc: lists can't see who it was bcc'd to.

    Oh! I thought u where talking about the BBC.
    ask-leo.com wrote:
    You don't.

    That's what "undisclosed" means. The information about who the email was sent to is not included in the email, and there is simply no way of determining if it was sent to anyone else, and if so, who.

    Now, to be complete, I do recall hearing about some old email programs, and we're talking ten or twenty years ago, that got the whole concept of "Bcc:" and undisclosed recipients wrong. They included the Bcc'd recipients in headers that everyone could read if they knew how. But that was a serious bug, and has long since been resolved.

    Today's email programs simply don't disclose "undisclosed recipients".

    It would be wrong to do so.

    See: http://ask-leo.com/how_to_i_view_the_list_of_bcced_recipients_on_an_email_ive_received.html for more info.

    - Sully


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