Outlook and BCC address'

[DavidBrent]

Hello all,
The CEO of my company has become very paranoid after one of his friends told him that if yo usend an email with a bcc that it can be 'seen; by the reciever if they have the know how?

is this true, and if it can be done he wants me to show him how!

thanks,
David

 

[TonyJollans]

Hi David,

This is not theoretically possible.

There have, however, been one or two situations where it was possible, notably Outlook Express 6 apparently shipped with a bug which enabled this under certain circumstances so if the mail was sent from OE there is a possibility of it happening. (Thanks to Killian at VBA Express for this)

There may also be some other e-mail clients which do some odd things, but Outlook is a pretty safe bet.

There are no tricks - either the bcc recipients are there in the message headers or not. Of course e-mail administrators have access to this sort of information (but not from the e-mail itself).

Enjoy,
Tony

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