I want to view BCC field when I was BCC'd on incoming emails.

[Guest]

Hello,

I have been bcc'd on an incoming external email (OE to OL 2003) yet when I
view the received email, I don't see myself in the bcc field.

If I'm being bcc'd, shouldn't I see the bcc field - the way I can view it
with internal exchange email?

MG2

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

There is never any information in the Bcc field on messages you receive, only on outgoing messages.

 

[Charles W Davis]

Since you received it, you assume that your address was there. Bcc is short
for Blind Carbon Copy. This term is a holdover from the days of typewriters
and carbon paper placed between the original and multiple copies. When the
letter was dictated comments were included as to who should get carbon
copies and blind carbon copies. The secretary typed the letter, carbon copy
recipients were typed below the signature. If a Blind copy was used that
persons name was only typed on the copy that would be forwarded blind. If
there were several blind copies, the recipients would never know.

Blind means that the sender didn't want you to see the blind recipients.
E-mail follows that protocol to the letter.

 

[frbruce]

Too funny... So, basically, I will not ever know if I was actually blind-copied on an email. So what you are saying is that I can not use the bcc field in a automatic formatting or a rule in Outlook to color-code it or move it to a folder because the recipient of a blind-copied email is left blank when it is received. Do you know how much confusion or issues this could cause in a company if people are unaware of this? People may reply when they are not supposed to be involved in the conversation but were blind-copied. This is a "feature" that should be disclosed by Microsoft in training or by IT if they even realize it. Yes, historically, blind carbon copy was BCC but it has certainly changed in meaning with the advent of email.

What is the purpose of having the BCC field in email and as part of a rule creation if the field itself will be empty? You may as well get rid of it as Microsoft has rendered it useless.