What is a BCC in an email?
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What is a BCC in an email?
Cc means carbon copy and Bcc means blind carbon copy. For emailing, you use Cc when you want to copy others publicly, and Bcc when you want to do it privately. Any recipients on the Bcc line of an email are not visible to others on the email.
Can you see who is BCC on an email?
If you’re the recipient of a message, you can’t see whether the sender added Bcc recipients. Only the sender of a message can see the names of Bcc recipients by opening a message in the Sent Items folder where all sent messages are stored by default.
What is CC and BCC in Gmail with example?
BCC stands for “blind carbon copy.” Just like CC, BCC is a way of sending copies of an email to other people. The difference between the two is that, while you can see a list of recipients when CC is used, that’s not the case with BCC.
What happens if someone replies to a BCC email?
If a BCC recipient hits reply all, the original sender will receive the reply and other normal recipients will get a CC.
Can you BCC everyone?
Yes. You can use BCC to send mass emails by putting multiple recipients in the To: field and using BCC to hide them from each other’s inboxes so they don’t know they’re all receiving the same message.
Is BCC secure?
The BCC addresses, while not visible to the individual recipients, are visible to people eavesdropping on the message during transmission. Therefore, BCC is not secure enough to hide the recipient information in a way that is sufficient for HIPAA compliance.
Can I send an email with only BCC?
You can put any addresses you like in the “To” or “Cc” fields along with any you put in the “Bcc” field. Just remember that only the addresses in the “Bcc” field are hidden from recipients. You can also leave the “To” or “Cc” fields blank and just sent the message to the addresses in the “Bcc” field.
When should you use BCC in an email?
If you are sending an impersonal email or one with a large mailing list, use the “Bcc.” You want to protect the privacy of recipients who don’t know each other, use “Bcc.” If you want to share an email with someone secretly, use “Bcc”, but exercise ethical discretion when doing so.
How do I BCC a mass email?
Using the BCC Field
- Launch Outlook. From the Outlook ribbon, click the Home tab, then New Email.
- A new message window appears. From the Ribbon, click the Options tab, then BCC.
- In the BCC field, type the email addresses of your recipients.
- After you have finished your message, click Send.
When should BCC be used?
What happens if I BCC everyone?
Recipients will receive the message, but won’t be able to see the addresses listed in the BCC field. When an email is forwarded, the addresses of everyone in the To and CC fields are also forwarded along with the message. Addresses that have been placed in the BCC field are not forwarded.
Can BCC be hacked?
As far as I know, there’s no difference security-wise between using the To field or the CC field to send e-mails (though BCC does a bit better in hiding the address, but it can still be found if you are the recipient or sender of that BCC). In general, this is not how malware and hackers work.
Can you just send a BCC email?
CC stands for “Carbon Copy” and BCC stands for “Blind Carbon Copy”. All are used to add the email addresses of the people you wish to send your message to. However, they differ significantly in their usage….CC and BCC in Emails.
| To | CC | BCC |
|---|---|---|
| Primary contact/s | Secondary contact/s | Tertiary contact/s |
When should BCC be used in email?
For security and privacy reasons, it is best to use the Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) feature when sending an email message to a large number of people. When you place email addresses in the BCC field of a message, those addresses are invisible to the recipients of the email.
What happens if you BCC everyone?
Bcc stands for “blind carbon copy,” and is a way of sending emails to multiple people without them knowing who else is getting the email. Any email addresses in the Bcc field will be invisible to everyone else on the email.
Is it sneaky to use BCC?
Some people still have a negative connotation of the Bcc field. Viewing it as a sneaky or underhanded way to create a paper trail, one that obstructs transparency and violates trust. While some of that may well be true, the majority of uses for Bcc are far from sinister – they’re actually necessary to our daily lives.
