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

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It depends ENTIRELY on the email program you are using. With most YOU CANNOT.
Basically if you look at the sent message if they're not visible, then they're
not available.

Thanks,

Leo

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It depends on your mail client. Don't trust Outlook. DO NOT do reply to all if you are not certain.
Most clients will let you see the actual email text that comes in (that is all that email is, text, binary stuff is encoded as text).

At work I use Outlook for work only, and my private gmail, through a proxy I run on my home server over SSL for any personal emails.

Play it safe, don't say things in a corporate email you would not want EVERYONE to see.

I am totally confused because I use the bcc all the time. I sent a message using bcc last night and when a recipient replied it showed my original message with everyone's email addresses showing in the "To" block. Why did this happen? Now I'm scared to send to multiple friends because of this glitch. I'm using Outlook 2003.

I use thunderbird on my home pc for mail. I received what look like a scam email from RBS. Thunderbird also flagged it up as a scam and displayed the BCC list for the other 20 users the scam email was sent to. If BCC's are indeed undisclosed to receiving mail servers how is this possible?

At what point is the BCC information stripped from the email? Do two separate packets go out completely stripped of the information, or does it happen at the mail server/ISP? How do spam programs know (if they do) that there is a long BCC list?

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Justin: then the sending mail program was not handling BCC
properly or we're not really talking about BCC.

Krissy: the BCC information is stripped off by the sending
program. It tells the mail server who to send the mail to,
but does NOT include the headers that would normally be
included in the message that would also contain that list.

Leo

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In Yahoo - if you want to see the BCC list for something that YOU sent.. Right click on message - choose "Veiw full headers". This is for the new Yahoo mail - not sure about classic yahoo mail.

Leo:

There is a known bug in Exchange 5.5 through 2003 SP1 that if a non Outlook MAPI email client is used to forward or reply to an email with BCC recipients, the BCC recipients will be revealed. How do you explain that in light of your statement that the BCC information is stripped off by the sending system? Do you have reference for a kb article or otherwise that defines this in MS Exchange? This is a mission critical issue for me - thanks for any insight you can offer.

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I'm not sure what I'm supposed to explain. You said it
yourself, it's a bug, it's not supposed to happen. BCC
information should never make it past the sending server,
and ideally never even leave the email client.

Leo

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In Outlook Express: If you are the sender of the email with BCC recipients you are the only one able to see that list by:
Right clicking onto the email in the Sent folder, select Properties. Click on the Details tab and the list of BCC'd recipients will be shown to you.

It is always there for the SENDER only. Recipients are not stripped.

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