Section 2.1.7 of RFC 4021 specifically mandates that BCC information shall NOT be disclosed.   This is defined in RFC RFC 822.
 

 

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2.1.7. Header Field: Bcc

   Description:
      Blind-carbon-copy recipient mailbox

   Applicable protocol: Mail [18]

   Status: standard

   Author/change controller:
      IETF  (mailto:iesg@ietf.org)
      Internet Engineering Task Force

   Specification document(s):
      RFC 2822 [18] (section 3.6.3)

   Related information:

      Contains addresses of recipients of the message whose addresses
      are not to be revealed to other recipients of the message.
      Defined as standard by RFC 822.
 

By design, BCC is private and cannot be displayed.

 

If SmarterTools was to include the BCC in the headers of e-mail messages, this will make the SmarterMail MX server non-compliant with the IETF rules and regulations as specified in Section 2.1.7 of RFC 4021   Those rules specifically mandate that BCC information shall not be disclosed.   This is further defined in RFC RFC 822.

 

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This is not a good idea.

Somehow it must work between Exchange and Outlook because when searching it clearly states the BCC addresses will be listed in the header.

 

I am sure that exchange is IETF compliant so there must be a way for this to happen.

I'm not sure about how they do it... All I know is that if I sent an email to a bunch of BCC recipients, then I surely want to see who I sent it to by checking my sent items.

 

Nobody wants anyone else to know who was in the BCC, regardless of regulations that's just common sense and the reason for the Blind Carbon Copy.

Yes, Exchange/Outlook and office365 do this for Sent Items.

 

The RFC says "Contains addresses of recipients of the message whose addresses are not to be revealed to other recipients of the message."

 

It is only prohibited to show the BCC contents to other recipients.

It is not prohibited to show the BCC contents to the sender of the message, since he is not one of the "other recipients of the message" as the RFC states.

 

What this means for outgoing messages to the recepients: Nothing, keep the current method.

 

What this means to the single message that will be placed in my Sent Items folder: Add the BCC addresses as a BCC-header.

 

Please (re)consider it, so the other day we can still see who we have mailed to.

Just checked this in SM webmail.  The BCC addresses are there when you view the header.  So if you need this, you can at least fire up Webmail and have a look.

I understand that BCC is "private" and the debate is seeing it in the sent items in Outlook. Just to add fuel to the fire I just sent a test email from GMail and then went to the Sent Items. I can see the BCC there as well.

Hello

We are having a similar problem as described in this thread: We are forwarding e-mails of some mailboxes to another mailbox (for different receivers into the same Mailbox), so an external e-mail server can get those messages over POP. The other e-mail server sorts those messages using the headers of those e-mails into mailboxes which have the same name as the receiver on the Smartermail-server.

That works perfectly for e-mail where the recipient is in "To" or "CC" but not for "BCC". The original receiver is no longer mentioned in the headers of the forwarded e-mail, so the external e-mail server is not able to sort them correctly.

How can we make sure that the BCC recipient is mentioned in the forwarded e-mail?