How do I hide the email addresses I’m sending to on a message? Have you ever gotten a piece of email where you weren’t listed as a recipient? Your email address wasn’t present on either the “To:” line or the “Cc:” (Carbon Copy) line, but somehow you got it anyway. What you didn’t see was what’s called the “Blind Carbon Copy” line, or “Bcc:” which allows the sender to specify a list of people to get the message without their name appearing on it. Why “carbon” and what’s this about it being “blind”? • The term “Carbon Copy” dates from the pre-photocopy typewriter days where the way to make a second copy was to insert a sheet of carbon paper between two sheets of typewriter paper - when the typewriter struck an image of a letter on the top it would also press an image through the carbon paper onto the second page. In today’s digital age, the term simply means any copy of a document or email sent to someone in addition to the primary recipient. It’s common courtesy on business correspondence to let the recipient know who else is getting the document by listing them after a “Cc:” somewhere on the document. Email of course does this automatically with the “Cc:” field into which you enter email addresses. “Blind” simply means that someone else gets a copy but they’re not listed on the “Cc:” line as getting one. Here’s the rub: how you access the blind carbon copy function will depend on your email client. Look in the on-line help for “bcc” or “Blind Carbon Copy”. In Outlook there is a BCC field that’s simply not visible by default. When you compose a message hit the View menu and you’ll find an item labeled Bcc field which will turn it on. In Outlook Express hit the View menu while composing a message and you’ll see an item All Headers that does the same. BCC can be a courtesy if used correctly. If you’re sending email to a large number of people you can reduce the size of the message and the “To:” or “Cc:” headers that people might have to wade through by BCCing your message to them. On the other hand, it can also be somewhat rude to BCC what someone might think is a personal message to others as well. BCC. Use it responsibly. When using bcc to send out emails from Outlook Express 6.0, the recipient should see “Undisclosed-Recipient;” in the TO field. However the recipients in my bcc list that I sent out see my own (the sender) email instead. Eventually it is showing as \”FROM: myemail@domain.com, TO: myemail@domain.com”. How do I get it to display “Undisclosed-Recipients:;” in the TO field? Unfortunately I’m seeing different results. When I use Outlook (not Outlook Express), I see the behavior that you describe. On the other hand, if I use Outlook Express I see the behavior you’re looking for: “Undisclosed Recipients”. As a result, I’m not sure exactly what to tell you. I hate to say “It works on my machine.”, but it does. Anything else about your setup that might be unique? I want find the list of “undisclosed recipients” of the email I’ve received in outlook. Is there any way? “Undisclosed recipients” is often placed in the “To:” line by some mailers when the email being sent has no entries in the “To:” or “Cc:” lines. The sender has used the “Bcc:” feature of email to send the email to one or more people, without revealing who they are. So how do you find out who they are? • You don’t. That’s what “undisclosed” means. The information about who the email was sent to is not included in the email. There is simply no way of determining if it was sent to anyone else and if so, who. Now, to be complete, I do recall hearing about some old email programs - and we’re talking ten or twenty years ago - that got the whole concept of “Bcc:” and undisclosed recipients wrong. They included the Bcc’d recipients in headers that everyone could read if they knew how. But that was a serious bug and has long since been resolved. Today’s email programs simply don’t disclose “undisclosed recipients”. It would be wrong to do so. collected from Internet