If I send an email (or forward someone else's email to me) to a third party with a Blindcc of it to someone else, how does the latter know it is a Bcc? And, if the answer is "that silly old fool shouldn't be allowed near a Mac", I shan't complain if I am given the answer especially if it applies to Mac to Mac, Mac to PC and PC to PC emails . . . . etc.
I don't think they will know. The whole point of doing a Bcc is that the recipients do not know to whom it is copied, they are just aware that they have received a forwarded email. I would assume that it works Mac to PC the same way.
Thanks Lionel. I fear I failed to make myself clear - apologies. What I would like to be able to do is to send an email to Mr A. and a Bcc of that email to Mr B. so that Mr A doesn't know that Mr B. knows all about my email and Mr B knows that Mr A doesn't know that Mr B. knows all about it (same applies to a forwarded email). Yes, I've got a headache too! (I'm not thinking about Groups here.)
Perhaps you could achieve the result you wish by simply copying the contents of the email to person A and then create a new email for person B by pasting the information from A into it. Before you then send the email to B add a sentence explaining that A is unaware. Alternatively you could 'phone :-).
What I do is reply to the original email then go to my 'sent' folder, open the email and click on 'forward': having done which I am free to delete any bits of it that I do not want the recipient to know before I click on 'send'.
Alan,
A quick test here using multiple E-Mail accounts and El Capitan suggests that:
- The normal addressee sees a message from you to him or her (as expected)
- The BCC addressee sees a message from you apparently to the normal addressee rather than to him or herself (which is the give-away that they were bcc-ed).
So if you wrote to me and bcc-ed your complaint to Mick: I would see a message from you as normal, Mick would receive a message from you but apparently addressed to me yet delivered to him.
I think this is a reasonable approach, I just hope I haven't muddled up all the message here addressed to me from me :-)
Thank you for all the comments and for the suggested 'work arounds' which I had not thought of and which I shall use as the occasion arises. I just think it's a pity that there appears no way of marking a Bcc so that the recipient doesn't have to infer that what he has received is a Bcc. I would like to do this occasionally so that I could be confident that the recipient would not be wondering why on earth I had sent him this particular email. (I have seen this done by a person using an Android phone to someone on his iPad).
I can think of many occasions when I would want to use BCC without the original recipient knowing. The problem is, Lionel, your original fear, the 'blind' recipient may not be aware of your intentions and replies to all and sundry, thus blowing the gaff! To be used with care in these circumstances.
Alan Cox 