Hi,

I recently made up a group called Family and Friends in my Address
Book. When I sent emails, I put my own name in the To box and the group
name in the BCC box. I thought everything was well until one day one of
the recipients replied to one of these mails with a copy of my initial
email. When I opened it, all of the names in the BCC box were disclosed
and open to my view, and if they save their sent messages, possiby
open to them as well. Is this just open to me if I get a returned email
or to them when they receive it? Also, when I go to Properties, I can
see the listing of everyone I sent the email to; can they also do this
to see who else received this same letter?

Could you tell me why this might have happened and how I could avoid
this from happening in the future for privacy reasons?

Thanks very much for your help,
Sanandra

Please review using BCC and Groups. What you describe should not have
happened if it was created correctly.

Using BCC and Groups:

To use the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) feature, In Create Mail, either click
ViewAll Headers and type in the addresses separated by a ;

Or: Click the To button. You will see your list of contacts and the choice
of putting them in the To, CC, or BCC field. Click on an address, then click
BCC to add it. Repeat for all the contacts you want. (Note: Most ISPs have
limits as to how many e-mails you can send a one time. 25 is common, but it
varies).

Put your own address in the To box. This is the only address/name that any
recipient will see. If you leave the To field blank, some people may not
receive the e-mail due to message rules they have set up, or restrictions
set by their ISP.


You can also create groups if you send mail to the same people often.

To create a group of contacts:

You can create a single group name (or alias) to use when sending a message
to several contacts at once. Simply create a group name and add individual
contacts to the group. Then, just type the group name in the To box when you
send e-mail.

1.. In the Address Book, select the folder in which you want to create a
group. Click New on the toolbar, and then click New Group.
2.. The Properties dialog box opens. In the Group Name box, type the name
of the group.
3.. There are several ways to add people to the group:
a.. To add a person from your Address Book list, click Select Members,
and then click a name from the Address Book list.
b.. To add a person directly to the group without adding the name to
your Address Book, type the person's name and e-mail address in the lower
half of the Properties dialog box, and then click Add.
c.. To add a person to both the group and your Address Book, click New
Contact and fill in the appropriate information.
d.. To use a directory service, click Select Members, and then click
Find. Select a directory service from the drop-down list at the end of the
text box.
After finding and selecting an address, it is automatically added to
your Address Book.
4.. Repeat for each addition until your group is defined.
Note

a.. To view a list of your groups separately from the Address Book
listings, in the Address Book, on the View menu, make sure that Folders and
Groups is selected.
b.. You can create multiple groups, and contacts can belong to more than
one group.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

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Hi,

I recently made up a group called Family and Friends in my Address
Book. When I sent emails, I put my own name in the To box and the group
name in the BCC box. I thought everything was well until one day one of
the recipients replied to one of these mails with a copy of my initial
email. When I opened it, all of the names in the BCC box were disclosed
and open to my view, and if they save their sent messages, possiby
open to them as well. Is this just open to me if I get a returned email
or to them when they receive it? Also, when I go to Properties, I can
see the listing of everyone I sent the email to; can they also do this
to see who else received this same letter?

Could you tell me why this might have happened and how I could avoid
this from happening in the future for privacy reasons?

Thanks very much for your help,
Sanandra

If you look at the message in your Sent Items folder, and then at the
Message Source (Ctrl-F3) or message properties, you will see the BCC
header. That is by design.

If you look at the message that you got back in your Inbox (since you
put your own name in the BCC), the BCC header should not be there since
OE does not send the BCC header.

If you accidentally used the CC header rather than BCC, then all
recipients get that.

Mail servers never look at the TO, CC or BCC fields in order to route
the mail. They never even get the BCC field. The sender's mail program
uses those fields to generate a list of recipients that is passed to his
SMTP mail server, along with the e-mail message minus the BCC field.
The recipient's e-mail address is carried outside of the e-mail message
itself and passed from server to server, and finally discarded by the
recipient's mail server.

I have heard of cases where an ISP reconstructs the BCC header from the
recipients list. But it would only be able to reconstruct the list for
recipients on that ISP since that is all the mail server gets. So if
you were sending a messages to recipients on ISPs A, B and C and ISP C
were reconstructing the list, then recipients on ISP C could see the
list of other recipients on ISP C, but not on A or B. I believe AOL was
doing this at one time, but I don't know if they still are.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


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Hi,

I recently made up a group called Family and Friends in my Address
Book. When I sent emails, I put my own name in the To box and the
group
name in the BCC box. I thought everything was well until one day one
of
the recipients replied to one of these mails with a copy of my initial
email. When I opened it, all of the names in the BCC box were
disclosed
and open to my view, and if they save their sent messages, possiby
open to them as well. Is this just open to me if I get a returned
email
or to them when they receive it? Also, when I go to Properties, I can
see the listing of everyone I sent the email to; can they also do this
to see who else received this same letter?

Could you tell me why this might have happened and how I could avoid
this from happening in the future for privacy reasons?

Thanks very much for your help,
Sanandra

Windows version?

OE Help About Files: What versions of MSOE.DLL and INETCOMM.DLL are
displayed here?

There's an OE Update which may address this problem (887797) but I need to
know the above before I can point you to it.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org


wrote:
Hi,

I recently made up a group called Family and Friends in my Address
Book. When I sent emails, I put my own name in the To box and the group
name in the BCC box. I thought everything was well until one day one of
the recipients replied to one of these mails with a copy of my initial
email. When I opened it, all of the names in the BCC box were disclosed
and open to my view, and if they save their sent messages, possiby
open to them as well. Is this just open to me if I get a returned email
or to them when they receive it? Also, when I go to Properties, I can
see the listing of everyone I sent the email to; can they also do this
to see who else received this same letter?

Could you tell me why this might have happened and how I could avoid
this from happening in the future for privacy reasons?

Thanks very much for your help,
Sanandra