Summary: BCC'ed recipients are not visible to the other recipients. But if you're the sender you probably see the BCC line on messages you've sent.
How do we find out who we listed in the "BCC" section in our outgoing email? In other words, how do we display the BCC addresses after having sent the message to the recipients? I know it is virtually impossible to do this for incoming emails with Outlook 2003. With the Mac Environment it is extremely simple since all one has to do is view the raw source and code information for the outgoing message(s).
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This isn't as much about the environment (Mac or PC) as it is about the email program that you're using. Some make it easy, some make hard, and others make it impossible.
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I do want to be clear first: as the person asking the question mentioned, this is not about email that you've received. I've covered that in another article, "How to I view the list of BCC'ed recipients on an email I've received?". The short answer there is that you cannot.
This is about looking at the BCC'ed recipients on a message that you sent.
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First off, you must configure your email program to save your sent email. If you're not doing that, then there's nothing to look at for this information.
Outlook 2003 appears to make it easy. If you go look at the message in your Sent Items folder, you should see a BCC line listing the BCC'ed recipients.
Outlook Express makes it hard. If you go look at the message in your Sent Items folder, you won't see a BCC line. However, with the message open, click on the message's File menu, then click on the Properties item. Then click on the Details tab, and you'll see the raw source to the message, including the BCC line.
Hotmail, surprisingly enough, makes it easy if you remember to check "Copy Message to Sent Folder" before you sent the email. Then you can just click on the Sent Messages folder, click on the message you sent, and the BCC line will be included in the display.
As I said, other mailers do it differently, or not at all. But the difference is, indeed, in the mail program you're using.
Related:
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Ask Leo! - How to I view the list of BCC'ed recipients on an email I've received?
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Ask Leo! - Why doesn't MSN Hotmail save my Sent Mail?
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Ask Leo! - Where's the Sent Items folder in Outlook Express?
Article C2948 - March 1, 2007
Thank You Leo!
You were kind to a Mac user and it is appreciated (especially by my children who use the Microsoft/PC - environment/architecture).
Cheers.
Posted by: Kika at March 1, 2007 9:08 PMKika in Calgary, AB, Canada.
I have Outlook 2003, I went into the Sent Folder, but did not see a BCC listed with my recepients, what am I doing wrong?
Posted by: Jim Lorenz at March 11, 2007 12:46 PMThank you Leo, just the thing I was looking
Posted by: Jack at August 11, 2007 11:35 PMfor (Outlook Express), Frappuccino sent!
Found very much informative, keep up the great job mike,
Posted by: anand at September 3, 2008 9:29 PM(Leo pls help How to get the BCC option in outlook 2003)
cheers
anand
I tried this for both Outlook and Hotmail, with no success. No bcc line ever appears in either program.
Posted by: Dennis Campbell at November 3, 2008 7:05 AMhow do i see the bcc address in an email I sent from my mac email, the mobile me account? I have it in my sent folder however it takes me to some idisk folder that doesn't list the addresses?
Posted by: Karen at April 13, 2009 3:48 PMthanks
Thank you so much!! I've tried lots of sources to find the answer to this particular question, with no results until I found yours.
Posted by: Ro at June 21, 2009 8:31 AMI have Outlook 2007. I just found out (thanks to this forum) that I have to 'double click' the message in the Sent folder, then the list of recipients is in the BCC line of the message that was sent. Thank you so much!
Posted by: Judy at October 12, 2009 8:12 AMJudy in Wisconsin
Hi, Thanks for solution, but can you extend your answer on how to look at Bcc'd recipients address in outgoing email on Outlook WebAccess? Thank you.
Posted by: Arun at November 13, 2009 9:07 AMThank you. I have outlook express. Now, how do I print that list after I've viewed it?
Posted by: Joni at November 18, 2009 12:10 PM