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Someone on the BCC list can see everything else, including the CC list and the contents of the email. However, the BCC list is secret—no one can see this list except the sender. If a person is on the BCC list, they’ll see only their own email on the BCC list.
How do you hide recipients in an email?
To hide the email addresses from recipients:
- Enter addresses into ‘Bcc’.
- To help prevent your emails from going into spam folders, add your own address into the ‘To’ field.
- Note the number of contacts before sending an email.
- Use ‘Undisclosed recipients’ to warn your addressees about bulk messaging.
Is Gmail BCC hidden?
With Gmail, each BCC recipient will see their own address in BCC, but no other recipients will see it. TO and CC recipients will not know that you included any BCC addresses.
What does BCC email do?
Protecting Email Address Privacy For security and privacy reasons, it is best to use the Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) feature when sending an email message to a large number of people. When you place email addresses in the BCC field of a message, those addresses are invisible to the recipients of the email.
What does BCC mean in an email?
blind carbon copy
Bcc stands for blind carbon copy which is similar to that of Cc except that the Email address of the recipients specified in this field do not appear in the received message header and the recipients in the To or Cc fields will not know that a copy sent to these address.
Can Bccs see each other?
Do BCC recipients see each other? No, they do not. Recipients that have been BCC’d will be able to read the email, but they won’t be able to see who else received it. Only the sender can see everyone that was BCC’d.
Can the recipient of an email see if you BCC them?
BCC means ‘blind carbon copy’ and only those recipients on the BCC line can see all other recipients. Those the the ‘to’line and the CC line cannot see recipients in the BCC line. So no, the person you sent the email to will not know you also copied it to others other than those in the adressee and copy lines. Yes, it’s possible.
How do you hide the recipients of a mass email?
Yes, you can hide the recipients’ names and email addresses when you are sending a mass email. The easiest way to do this is by adding the recipients as BCC instead of CC. Can you find out if someone was BCC’d on an email? Recipients cannot find out if someone else was BCC’d in an email.
Can email recipients see if someone has been blind-copied?
“Generally, recipients can’t see if someone has been blind-copied on a message,” says Sherrod DeGrippo, senior director of threat research and detection for Proofpoint Email. “Servers that receive messages are designed to strip out ‘BCC’ information before they pass the message on to the recipient.
Why can’t I see who is in cc and not BCC?
The only reason that you can see who is in CC and not in BCC when looking at en email is because the MUA has been programmed to populate the CC field in the email header, whereas it does not populate any BCC field (that would defeat the purpose). The way emails are sent is using an envelope.
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