Lotus Notes bcc problem

[jorourke13]

A user I support alerted me to a problem that I had never thought about before. She sent an email to several recipients and also bcc'd someone. The person who was bcc'd apparently replied back using "Reply to All" and the other recipients also received the reply. Obviously now they have become aware that someone was bcc'd. Isn't the purpose of the bcc to "secretly" send someone an email without the other recipients knowing. Obviously this could cause some serious problems if the response is really something that the other recipients shouldn't be privy to. Is this just a quirk with Lotus Notes or do all email systems work like this. The user was under the assumption that the bcc'd person would only have the ability to reply only back to her - not all the others. Any ideas here. I realize that the way around it would be to send the email to the original recipients and then forward the email to the other person, but other than that is there anything else that can be done to prevent this.

 

[Packet7]

This might help you find some answers:

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docvie...cc&uid=swg21084445&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en

Rgds,


John Judge
MCSE, MCSA, MCP, CCNA, CNA, Network +, A+

 

[AmazingDominik]

Hi,

This is standard behaviour.
It is quite normal actual. The person who received can also see the other recipients and therefore can choose to reply to all of them.

This is a user mistake and not a Notes problem.

If Notes would not include the other recipients the bcc person would have a problem.

You could however build in a function in the mail template to prevent answering to all recipients when the user name is in the bcc field.

Personally I think it is fine as it is. Sender and bcc recipient should be aware about this. Why sending a bcc anyway if you do not want the other person to react? Just to "protect yourself?"



Kind regards,

Dominik Malfait
dominik@amazingit.com

http://www.amazingit.com

 

[daleflannery]

Try bcc'ing everyone. Or if it is just a cover your botty exercise send to the normal recipients and then forward to the bcc with explanatory note.

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