Is there a way to disable or keep the BCC option from sending a duplicate
copy of an email to the sender. I already have a copy in my out box and
don't need another.

Buckram wrote (on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:52:01 -0700):

> Is there a way to disable or keep the BCC option from sending a duplicate
> copy of an email to the sender. I already have a copy in my out box and
> don't need another.

Although not a requirement of RFCs that define SMTP that a To header be
present (it is optional), Microsoft decided to code Outlook so that a
recipient must be listed in the To field. Specifying the recipient(s)
only in the Bcc header results in adding yourself as the To recipient;
i.e., Outlook will add "<youremail>" to the To header which is the
e-mail address for the account through which you send the e-mail with a
blank To field.

You could define a rule that looks for e-mail that is addressed From you
which is also address To you. Or you could create a dummy contact
record and add that in the To field.

It doesn't work like that in my Outlook - depending on which account I use,
I can send BCC without a name in the To or CC field and my own address is
not automatically added to the To field. Adding ian address to the to field
helps keep it out of spam filters.

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"VanguardLH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Buckram wrote (on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:52:01 -0700):
>
>> Is there a way to disable or keep the BCC option from sending a duplicate
>> copy of an email to the sender. I already have a copy in my out box and
>> don't need another.
>
> Although not a requirement of RFCs that define SMTP that a To header be
> present (it is optional), Microsoft decided to code Outlook so that a
> recipient must be listed in the To field. Specifying the recipient(s)
> only in the Bcc header results in adding yourself as the To recipient;
> i.e., Outlook will add "<youremail>" to the To header which is the
> e-mail address for the account through which you send the e-mail with a
> blank To field.
>
> You could define a rule that looks for e-mail that is addressed From you
> which is also address To you. Or you could create a dummy contact
> record and add that in the To field.

Diane Poremsky [MVP] wrote:

> It doesn't work like that in my Outlook - depending on which account I use,
> I can send BCC without a name in the To or CC field and my own address is
> not automatically added to the To field. Adding ian address to the to field
> helps keep it out of spam filters.

Works that way in OL2002. The OP never mentioned *which* version of
Outlook he/she uses. You don't get a comment (name) field included in
the To field (in the copy sent to the mail server), just the
"<yourmail>" entry (i.e., your e-mail address enclosed within angle
brackets). Which version of Outlook do you have? Did you send a test
e-mail to a different e-mail account (like another one that you have)
and look at its raw source using the webmail interface to your account
(and NOT download it into Outlook to look at it there)? Microsoft
might've changed the behavior of Outlook sometime after version 2002.

The To header is optional. If a spam filter is scoring negatively an
e-mail because it has a blank To field then that spam filter is not RFC
compliant. But then I've seen spam filters that tag e-mails that have
"Undisclosed Recipients" as the comment in the To header (which Outlook
Express will add if the To header is left blank).