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How do I set my email account to automatically blind copy me
When an email is sent out how do I have it automatically send a copy back to
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How do I set my email account to automatically blind copy me
"dbrite" wrote in message ... When an email is sent out how do I have it automatically send a copy back to me? Why would you want to? Outlook by default saves a copy of the sent email in your Sent Items... |
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How do I set my email account to automatically blind copy me
Gordon wrote:
"dbrite" wrote in message ... When an email is sent out how do I have it automatically send a copy back to me? Why would you want to? Outlook by default saves a copy of the sent email in your Sent Items... Because that does not prove that your sending mail server actually got your e-mail or that your sending mail server ever attempted to actually send your e-mail. All that does is slide a copy of the sent e-mail generated by your own e-mail client back into another folder inside the same e-mail client. Some users need proof that the e-mail actually got sent, not that some copy operation got performed on their own host. For legal reasons, that your e-mail server accepted your message is not sufficient "performance" (a legal term meaning that you expended reasonable effort to effect a condition of a contract) to prove that you sent an e-mail. In a similar vein, you sliding a letter with postage into your mailbox for your postman to pickup may not be sufficient legal proof that you sent the letter. You have to send it with confirmation delivery, registered, or with some other form of tracking to prove that you actually sent the letter (and you might even get a notary to validate the content of the letter to prove what was inside and not just that you sent "some" letter). Auto-Bcc also affords you some tracking that your mail server ever bothered to send your e-mail. You don't get that with a copy put in your Sent Items folder. The only proof (which is indirect) that a copy in the Sent Items folder provides is that your e-mail client got back an +OK status from the DATA command that it used in supposedly sending the message to the mail server. |
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How do I set my email account to automatically blind copy me
dbrite wrote:
When an email is sent out how do I have it automatically send a copy back to me? Google still works: http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bou...%22auto-bcc%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bou...bcc%22+%2Bfree I know of this one (but haven't used myself): http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook/Always-BCC.asp Note that sending a Bcc to yourself by sending the e-mail through your e-mail account and Bcc'ing to yourself at that same account does NOT prove that your e-mail server actually sent your e-mail to the recipient(s). Most e-mail server use redirection for internally routed e-mails. That is, their e-mail server is not involved if an e-mail from one of their customers is sent to another of their customers. You also won't see a Received header in the received (Bcc) copy. You need to send the Bcc copy to yourself at a different domain than for the e-mail server through which you are sending your e-mails. So, for example, if you were using your ISP's e-mail service to send your e-mails, you would Bcc yourself at Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, or somewhere else to provide the proof that your ISP's e-mail server actually sent at least one copy of your e-mail and provide some proof that your e-mail actually got sent out. Obviously you can have your e-mail client retrieve those Bcc copies from the other-domain accounts (and even use a rule that moves e-mails sent by yourself from your ISP account and to yourself at the other-domain to a folder for those Bcc copies). |
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How do I set my email account to automatically blind copy me
"VanguardLH" wrote in message ... Gordon wrote: "dbrite" wrote in message ... When an email is sent out how do I have it automatically send a copy back to me? Why would you want to? Outlook by default saves a copy of the sent email in your Sent Items... Because that does not prove that your sending mail server actually got your e-mail or that your sending mail server ever attempted to actually send your e-mail. Well for the tiny number of times someone's not received an email that I have sent over 20 years, it's a pretty spurious reason for doing it IMHO and just not worth the bother and the duplicate emails that will rapidly grow into a huge file, especially if they contain large attachments... |
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How do I set my email account to automatically blind copy me
Not sure if this is what you've asked for. This VBA example sends a BCC of each sent email to another address: http://www.vboffice.net/sample.html?...owitem&lang=en -- Best regards Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook Category Manager - Manage and share your categories: SAM - The Sending Account Manager: http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?lang=en Am Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:31:01 -0700 schrieb dbrite: When an email is sent out how do I have it automatically send a copy back to me? |
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