I am trying to get the BCC and From fields to showing in my email messages. I
have put it in the windows help and it says to open a new mail message, click
on the arrow next to the options button and choose BCC and from, however,
there is no arrow next to options and i can't seem to find it anywhere else.

"Sarah Chaney" <Sarah (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I am trying to get the BCC and From fields to showing in my email
>messages. I
> have put it in the windows help and it says to open a new mail
> message, click
> on the arrow next to the options button and choose BCC and from,
> however,
> there is no arrow next to options and i can't seem to find it anywhere
> else.


You can't get the Bcc header to show in your e-mail MESSAGES. The whole
point is to hide the value the user specified for that field in the form
the user used to compose the e-mail. There is no Bcc header included in
the e-mail that gets sent. In fact, the To and Cc fields you see are
not what determine where the mail gets sent. Instead the e-mail client
takes the To, Cc, and Bcc *fields* that are displayed in your e-mail
client and compiles a list of RCPT-TO commands, one for each recipient,
that it sends to the mail server. If there were an aggregate of 10
total recipients in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields then your e-mail client
sends 10 RCPT-TO commands to the mail server followed by one DATA
command to send the contents of your message.

Maybe what you meant to ask is how to show the Bcc and From fields in
the compose window shown by the e-mail client when you create a new
e-mail message. You didn't mention WHICH version of Outlook that you
use, and different versions are, well, different so their menu
navigation can also be different. I have OL2002. In that version, open
the new mail window (i.e., start to write a new e-mail). In that
window's menu bar, look under the View menu and use the From and Bcc
selections to enable the display of those fields in that window. Then
close that new-mail window (don't bother to send anything). When you
next open the new-mail window, the From and Bcc fields will again
display.

Sarah Chaney <Sarah (E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I am trying to get the BCC and From fields to showing in my email
> messages. I have put it in the windows help and it says to open a new
> mail message, click on the arrow next to the options button and
> choose BCC and from, however, there is no arrow next to options and i
> can't seem to find it anywhere else.

To add just a bit to what Vanguard said, unless you're using Exchange, the
From field in a compose window will not show the address used to send the
message, so it's fairly pointless to display it.
--
Brian Tillman