Outlook 2000 and invisible Cc

[Kung Lau]

I know people can be Cc''d invisibily with sent email. Is there a way to see who ALL saw the email?

 

[prosaic]

Only if you are the person who sent the e-mail. Otherwise, what would be the purpose of BCC?

- prosaic

 

[Kung Lau]

I mean if the Bcc field is not utilized, you can erase the Cc portion of viewers, and the recipient doesn't know anyone else saw the email.

I understand the Bcc field is used to add a mailing list for example and not reveal all the email addresses of that list to all involved.

Is this correct?

 

[prosaic]

Originally posted by: Kung Lau
I mean if the Bcc field is not utilized, you can erase the Cc portion of viewers, and the recipient doesn't know anyone else saw the email.

I'm afraid that I don't understand what you mean by this. I'm not in top form today, and I'm no genius even on the best of days. You may have to be really explicit to get me to understand what you're talking about.

I understand the Bcc field is used to add a mailing list for example and not reveal all the email addresses of that list to all involved.

Is this correct?

Yes, that's correct. The only persons who would have access to the entire list of names / addresses in the BCC list for an e-mail would be the person who wrote and sent the message and, possibly, an admin on the mail server that transmitted the message.

- prosaic

 

[Kung Lau]

My boss submits certain emails to his boss and cc's us, but his boss doesn't see that we got cc'd. He does not use Bcc to do this.
My question is: Is there any way for his boss to see us hidden cc's?

The data has to be part of the email else we would not get the hidden cc's, but the recipient does not see that we were cc'd.

Hope that helps.

 

[prosaic]

That's interesting. I haven't run across this before because I would just use BCC for such situations.

So you're saying that everyone who gets the e-mail EXCEPT your boss' boss sees everyone else who got a courtesy copy? Okay, I guess I can understand how that might be useful, but I don't know how it's being done, other than to send the e-mail twice -- once with the list in the CC field and once with no one listed in the CC field.

I guess your boss could achieve roughly the same functionality by forwarding the message to the list after it was first sent to his boss with an empty CC field.

In either of the above cases I don't think the boss' boss would be able to find out who had been copied unless s/he had access to either your boss' e-mail client or to the mail sending server.

But I think you may be suggesting that there is another way to accomplish this, perhaps in one shot instead of having to send mail twice. If that's so I don't know the method that's being used, so I don't know the answer to your question.

What OS and mail client are being used? What type of mail server?

- prosaic