Is there a way to find out if an email sent to you was also Bcc'ed to someone else?

[Kung Lau]

Is BCC untouchable? I mean, can you tell if you've been sent an email and others have also seen it? (BCC)?

 

[MrChad]

I don't think so. It's called a Blind Carbon Copy for a reason.

 

[shortylickens]

I think its blind because of the email server does.
So off hand I'd have to say no. Supposedly you can use VisualBasic to mess with headers and make people think the email has come from somewhere else. Along those lines it might be possible to figure out where an email really came from.

Who is messing with you and how?

 

[Kung Lau]

Originally posted by: MrChad
I don't think so. It's called a Blind Carbon Copy for a reason.

With this logic, copy protection couldn't be broken.

 

[DaveSimmons]

No. Nothing is sent in the headers to tell you about any other addressees, unless the SMTP server app was written by a really really stupid coder [ who decided to add an "X-Secret-BCC-List" header to the outgoing emails for no reason. Servers send each CC and BCC email separately to each person on the list, it isn't a broadcast message where a single send goes to multiple addresses in one step ] .

With this logic, copy protection couldn't be broken.

Yes, but yelling "enhance!" at a bitmap image only adds magic pixels in the movies and TV. If the information is not there you can't read it.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
No. Nothing is sent in the headers to tell you about any other addressees, unless the SMTP server app was written by a really really stupid coder [ who decided to add an "X-Secret-BCC-List" header to the outgoing emails for no reason. Servers send each CC and BCC email separately to each person on the list, it isn't a broadcast message where a single send goes to multiple addresses in one step ] .

With this logic, copy protection couldn't be broken.

Yes, but yelling "enhance!" at a bitmap image only adds magic pixels in the movies and TV. If the information is not there you can't read it.

I thought the information was always there. You just needrose colored X-Ray glasses to see it.:roll:

 

[Kung Lau]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
I think its blind because of the email server does.
So off hand I'd have to say no. Supposedly you can use VisualBasic to mess with headers and make people think the email has come from somewhere else. Along those lines it might be possible to figure out where an email really came from.

Who is messing with you and how?

A co-worker has sent information outside our office(this is against our policy and I have additional evidence that this occurred) and this information has somehow been turned around and asked of us in a manner that only our office would know so we (my immediate boss and I) thought the co-worker was bcc'ed from the external agency. My boss isn't willing to have the coworker's email checked but if we could find evidence he was the one that leaked this information, my boss would have grounds for search.

So, in the end, I wanted to know if an email that's on my boss' computer has any signs of being bcc'ed to the co-worker too.