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software for seeing BCC on email

  • 14-06-2005 9:16am
    #1
    s8n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,842 ✭✭✭


    Folks,

    First off...apologies if I have the wrong forum.

    I'm wondering if anyone has come across a prog that will allow you to see if someone has been BCC'd on mail sent to you using outlook??

    Any help appreciated...


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  • #2
    oneweb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,152 ✭✭✭oneweb


    It's a Blind Carbon Copy so you won't see who else it's been sent to. You might find out if you're part of a BCC if the TO has something like Undisclosed.Recipients

    It is what it's.



  • #3
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    s8n wrote:
    Folks,

    First off...apologies if I have the wrong forum.

    I'm wondering if anyone has come across a prog that will allow you to see if someone has been BCC'd on mail sent to you using outlook??

    Any help appreciated...
    Not possible (more or less).

    Afaik, when you send a mail BCC'd to someone, it first submits the mail to the mail server, with the To and Cc recipients on it. Then for each Bcc recipient, it resends the mail specifically to that recipient. This ensures that the mail server doesn't even know who's been Bcc'd on it, when it relays the message to the To and Cc recipients.


  • #4
    bringitdown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭bringitdown


    SMTP stipulates that BCC addresses are stripped off by the recipients mail server - i.e. probably your MS Exchange server.

    As such to see BCC fields you'd have to have admin access to your exchange server.

    /edit
    Woops: it all depends on the implementation:
    rfc2822.txt wrote:
    The "Bcc:" field (where the "Bcc" means "Blind Carbon Copy") contains
    addresses of recipients of the message whose addresses are not to be
    revealed to other recipients of the message. There are three ways in
    which the "Bcc:" field is used. In the first case, when a message
    containing a "Bcc:" field is prepared to be sent, the "Bcc:" line is
    removed even though all of the recipients (including those specified
    in the "Bcc:" field) are sent a copy of the message. In the second
    case, recipients specified in the "To:" and "Cc:" lines each are sent
    a copy of the message with the "Bcc:" line removed as above, but the
    recipients on the "Bcc:" line get a separate copy of the message
    containing a "Bcc:" line. (When there are multiple recipient
    addresses in the "Bcc:" field, some implementations actually send a
    separate copy of the message to each recipient with a "Bcc:"
    containing only the address of that particular recipient.) Finally,
    since a "Bcc:" field may contain no addresses, a "Bcc:" field can be
    sent without any addresses indicating to the recipients that blind
    copies were sent to someone. Which method to use with "Bcc:" fields
    is implementation dependent, but refer to the "Security
    Considerations" section of this document for a discussion of each.

    See: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt


  • #5
    s8n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,842 ✭✭✭s8n


    ah well, twas worth a try.

    Thanks people for the super prompt responses on this.

    :D


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