any way to find out the BCC:'s on an email

[kermalou]

just curious, can you find out who the hell was bcc'd on an email?

 

[GasX]

ask the sender

 

[rh71]

I highly doubt that. I mean, it's the point of it, after all.

There might be a way if you have access to the outgoing email server.

 

[slycat]

how do u know if there were any.

 

[gopunk]

no, that's the point

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: slycat
how do u know if there were any.

because if nobody is specified in the to: field it says "undisclosed recipients" or something to that effect

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: gopunk
no, that's the point

 

[kermalou]

i know, because i want to see if what was sent to me was also sent to someone else.......no way to "hack" it?

 

[slycat]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: slycat
how do u know if there were any.

because if nobody is specified in the to: field it says "undisclosed recipients" or something to that effect

well,..usually theres 1-2 in the To: and the others in the BCC:
Thats how i do it...then no one knows.

 

[Viper GTS]

As a recipient, no (that's the whole point of BCC).

If you ran the mail server?

Probably.

Viper GTS

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: kermalou
i know, because i want to see if what was sent to me was also sent to someone else.......no way to "hack" it?

I don't even think the bcc information gets sent to the to or cc recipients. You can't hack what's not there.

 

[Amorphus]

what do CC and BCC stand for and do, btw?

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: Amorphus
what do CC and BCC stand for and do, btw?

carbon copy and blind carbon copy

(holdover from the mimiograph days)

 

[kermalou]

nobody? i though you are educated people

 

[cpals]

Originally posted by: kermalou
nobody? i though you are educated people

Yeah, ask the sender... how hard is that?

Other than that, you're out of luck.

 

[hevnsnt]

Originally posted by: kermalou
nobody? i though you are educated people

Your answer has already been posted. You can't thats the point of it.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: kermalou
nobody? i though you are educated people

I found a way you can do it!
bcc hack!

 

[luv2chill]

Here's an example. I hand-write a letter and mail it to you. You suspect that I also photocopied it and mailed it to several other people so they could have a laugh at your expense. How can you find out whether I did without doing one or more of the following:

a. asking the sender
b. asking the other recipients (assuming you know or suspect who they'd be)
c. infiltrate the sending post office's mail logs (assuming there were such a thing)

That's it. E-mail works the same way. The addresses of BCC recipients aren't included anywhere on the e-mail you received.

l2c

 

[minendo]

Open the email. Press Alt+F4 to view all recipients.

 

[Descartes]

Your answer has already been answered many times, but you can also read RFC 934 to at least get an idea of how BCC came about, and better understand potential implementations of it by user-agents and SMTP servers.

It's certainly possible that a malformed user-agent and/or SMTP server could expose the necessary information by adding their own headers, and things like this have been the source for well-known information leak vulnerabilities.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

"Reply to All"

It will show all the recipients.

 

[rootaxs]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
"Reply to All"

It will show all the recipients.

Not the BCC part.

 

[oniq]

I believe pushing the power button on your computer will unmask the culprits!

 

[BooGiMaN]

hmmm how many different ways of saying no will it take to get the point across...and to boot he offends the very people he is trying to get information from by calling them uneducated.

 

[dethman]

ctrl-alt-del plus unplugging your computer will reveal BCC recipients.