Bcc addresses not hidden

[Sean]

I sent an email to about 20 people (who are not in my contacts) by
typing their individual email addresses into the Bcc: line and include
my own email address to check it. When I got the sent message, I could
see all of the email addresses it was sent to "Bcc".

I was hoping that I could send that message without everyone receiving
it knowing the email addresses of everyone else that got it.

What went wrong ?

[Zack (Doc)]

They weren't hidden in your sent mail, which is basically what you
were looking at. To any other receiver, they only saw the To: line,
and didn't see their address even in the mail. Some harsher spam
filters would automatically classify that as spam, but most are a
little forgiving as the TO address could be a group address.

To truely test it, you'll have to use a separate account to view it
from, either another gmail account, or a hotmail/yahoo/etc account.
It shouldn't matter if the other account is the TO, or a BCC, it
should look the same (except headers, but those are usually hidden
from user view).

[burton...@gmail.com]

Nothing went wrong, Sean.  When you send an e-mail, no matter which field you use for names, the contacts will show when you bring up your sent message.  On the other end, however, so long as you used only your own name and BCC for the recipients, each recipient will see only your name and her or his own name and e-mail address. - Wolfeman

On 6/7/06, Sean <bro...@gmail.com> wrote:

[guar...@gmail.com]

If you add yourself as a BCC contact, you'll see that the email you
receive will only have you in the BCC field. The email you SEND will
still show all the information that you, as the sender, have entered.

[he_the_great]

he said he included himself in the BCC field. And I would assume that
he was looking at the recieved, not sent, message.

[Yaroslav Buzko]

Yeah, the point is that when you send and email to your Gmail address
from this very address - Gmail doesn't actually "receive" it, and you
don't have two copies, "sent" and "received". Gmail identifies you're
writing to yourselc and simply stores the mail in Sent; that's what you
Sean are looking at.

[Sean]

Hey, yeah you're right. I was looking at the email that I "received" by
putting my own email address in the Bcc line. But Gmail did recognize
it as a message that I sent, so it included the information that it
sent it out with. My email address that I put in the Bcc line of the
email was actually an address other than my gmail address, which i have
set to forward to gmail. So when I looked at the email in the account
that I actually mailed it to, it didn't show the Bcc addresses.

So everything's good. Thanks for the replies.