How do I view the list of BCC'ed recipients on an email I've received?

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That's simply not true. BCC'ed recipients won't be present.

How do we see BCC recipients on an email which we received from some one outside our LAN.

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Read the article. You don't.

Leo
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It's my understanding that on a server-to-server communication level, only one copy of an email is sent regardless of the number of recipients in the to, cc and bcc fields. *If you have access to your mail server* you can open up those raw email logs and look at the bcc fields. Your local mail server strips the bcc field info when it sends it to your account; so if you don't have root access to that mail server, then you don't have access to the bcc, at all.

At least as far as know.

HTH

I want to clarify that even at the server level, you cannot view BCC information, and I am talking about when logged in as root and using cat to view the e-mail file.

The following was BBC'ed to three addresses, yet it is impossible to tell who the other two are from the message.

To be sure, you cannot even determine if the message was BCC'ed to anyone at all.

cat output follows (with personal information removed):

Return-Path:
Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.236])
by --- (---)
for ---@---;
Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:10:00 -0700
Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 68so944227wra
for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:09:59 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.115.106.7 with SMTP id i7mr1074974wam.1176491398758;
Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:09:58 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.114.121.4 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:09:58 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:09:58 -0700
From: "Kyle ---"
Subject: ---
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_Part_12297_21823181.1176491398691"

------=_Part_12297_21823181.1176491398691
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

---

------=_Part_12297_21823181.1176491398691
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

---

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Leo,

I want to add the Bcc option to my outgoing email, but I can't find anything that gives me the option to add it.

Dennis

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That depends entirely on the email program that you use. Check the
documentation for it.

Leo

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This is an opposite problem:

I sent an email in Hotmail to a mailing list I have. I desperately need to see the BCC addresses I sent to but can't find a way. I tried clicking on the message, it only shows To: and CC: not BCC. HELP!!!

i have tried hitting "reply all".But it's showing only the mail ids in the "TO" list and "CC" list only.

Ok, If I am sending a mail to others by using BCC, How to see those mail-ids later in sent folder ?

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