Blind Copy Gmail
Cc is short for carbon copy.
Blind copy gmail. Using bcc or blind carbon copy is an easy way to protect the privacy of recipients by not allowing any recipient to look at the private information. Install bcc me for gmail as a chrome extension. People in the bcc field also don t receive reply emails from to or cc recipients.
When emailing a list of clients using the gmail email platform it s often in your best interest to use the blind carbon copy bcc field to hide the names and email addresses of all of the recipients. Enter the email address you want the bcc to be sent to in the popup window. The people you send it to don t know that others are secretly on the bcc line.
The bcc blind carbon copy field allows you to send an email to multiple recipients. Bcc blind carbon copy allows you to hide the addresses of email recipients from each other. How to create a blind copy mailing list in gmail.
Click gmail in the top left corner then click compose when you want to send a message to everyone in your blind copy mailing list. Blind carbon copy bcc is a functionality available in most email programs through which the sender can distribute an email to one or more individuals beyond the ones to whom the email is addressed. I m not sure exactly when or why the blind carbon copy bcc was invented but i have seen it misused misunderstood and misfired too many times to count.
In gmail bcc stands for blind carbon copy and lets you email a group of people without revealing who the email was sent to. Hiding the recipients list maintains your clients confidentiality. Allow it access to your gmail when it asks.
A new blank message appears. Bcc stands for blind carbon copy. Click to and.
Everyone on the email can see who is cc d but only the sender knows who was bcc d on a message. However when using bcc the primary recipients of the email will be unaware of other recipients you ve included. Hence it s a little more confidential than cc.
Since gmail or google mail is the most widely used email service across the globe people have multiple gmail accounts too. Entering an address in the bcc field makes it invisible to other recipients of that email. Unlike simple carbon copy blind carbon copy is said to be blind because it.
Or at least who i know has more than two email accounts. From now on every time you reply or compose an email you will automatically receive a bcc copy of it in the email address you added in step 3. Although this procedure covers the use of gmail on the web.
