Bcc question

[Roger Schlemmer]

iMac OS X 10.4.11
Entourage X v. 10.1.6

The Bcc feature doesn't seem to be doing what I expected it to be doing.

I send out an e-mail with my address in the "To:" address box and multiple
addresses of other recipients in the Bcc field.

When responses to my e-mail come back to me some of the incoming e-mails
show my address in the "To:" box and others come back showing every address
that I entered in the Bcc field in the "To:" field.

All the time that I have been using Bcc I was under the impression that
everyone receiving that e-mail would not even know that it had been sent to
anyone else.

Why would some people see all the other recipients and others can't? And
what can I do to make sure that Bcc does what it's intended to do? Or have I
been expecting too much?

 

[Barry Wainwright]

iMac OS X 10.4.11
Entourage X v. 10.1.6

The Bcc feature doesn't seem to be doing what I expected it to be doing.

I send out an e-mail with my address in the "To:" address box and multiple
addresses of other recipients in the Bcc field.

When responses to my e-mail come back to me some of the incoming e-mails
show my address in the "To:" box and others come back showing every address
that I entered in the Bcc field in the "To:" field.

All the time that I have been using Bcc I was under the impression that
everyone receiving that e-mail would not even know that it had been sent to
anyone else.

Why would some people see all the other recipients and others can't? And
what can I do to make sure that Bcc does what it's intended to do? Or have I
been expecting too much?

AOL used to do this - put all the BCC addresses in an 'apparently-to'
header.

This is in direct contravention of the mail exchange protocols and the
ISP responsible is at fault.

Itisn't Entourage's fault, and the same would happen to any mail client
you use to send BCC to those addresses.

 

[Adam Bailey]

AOL used to do this - put all the BCC addresses in an 'apparently-to'
header.

If you didn't have a TO or CC recipient, as necessitated by the standards.
We're also talking over 10 years ago.

 

[Linotype]

I find that very strange. Who runs your email server?

Comcast is my ISP.

When you receive the message you sent, and you examine the source of the
message, does it show the other addresses in the source?

yes, that's what I meant. In the e-mail response are all the addresses
just like I had them in the Bcc field when I sent out the original.
But that doesn't happen with every response, some only show my address
as the "To:" address and there are no addresses from the Bcc field
visible.