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Sending an e-mail to a group is a great method of
communicating a single message to numerous. The problem is all
recipients can view who else received the e-mail and more importantly
have access to all the recipients’ e-mail addresses.
Blind
Carbon
Copy (BCC) is the
solution to this problem.
When an e-mail is sent
BCC to all recipients, each
recipient will see only his/her e-mail address or no e-mail addresses
at all versus the entire recipient list. In the
To header of a received
e-mail Undisclosed List or
Distribution List Suppressed
will be displayed. Often senders will put there own e-mail
address in the To header and
insert recipients in the BCC
header. When this method is used the To
header of a received e-mail will only display sender’s name.
In the examples below,
Outlook Express is the e-mail package used, though the method is very
similar in other e-mail packages such as Outlook and Netscape.
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Adding BCC to
the Header of a New Message Box: |
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From the
View
menu select
All Headers.
Note:
BCC
does not need to be in a header to send e-mail in the
BCC
format (refer to instructions below*).
In Outlook the command
is
View,
BCC Field |
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Sending a BCC
e-mail: |
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Click the
Address Book
icon to the left of any any
header of the New Message
box (or fill in the e-mail addresses in the appropriate field).
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Select a
name and click the appropriate field option:
To,
CC or
BCC*.
Select multiple names: select first recipient, press and hold
down the Ctrl
key and click remaining recipients. Release Ctrl
button and click the appropriate field button To,
CC or
BCC.
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Click
OK.
e-mail addresses will be inserted into new e-mail message in the
appropriate headers.
- If
BCC was
selected, but was not a header in the original New
Message box,
the header will now be displayed*.
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Complete
e-mail and send.
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