Little tips - E-Mail recipients

With this brief post I wish to explain the mean of all those unknow fields to whom is not friendly with the emails: Cc and Bcc (or Ccn); they usually are placed after the field To.

Cc means Carbon Copy or Courtesy Copy and it is used to indicate the recipient that should know who sent what and to who, even not being the direct recipient.

Bcc means Blind Copy Carbon and it has the same function of the Cc field, but the To receiver is not able to understand if the message has been sent to another recipient too.

So, if my address is zzz@...com and I wish to send a message to xxx@...com and let read it by another recipient yyy@...com (only for informational purposes) I have to write:

To: xxx@...com
Cc: yyy@...com
Subject:
Body of message

The "To" recipient will read:

From: zzz@...com
Cc: yyy@...com
Subject:
Body of message

Otherwise, if the sender use the Ccn: yyy@...com not the Cc, the receiver will read:

From: zzz@...com
Subject:
Body of message

Who receive this email will NEVER be able to know that it has been also sent to yyy@....com

For the Privacy of your contacts and to avoid SPAM due to the spreading of the E-Mail addresses, I advise to use ONLY the Bcc field and NOT the To one for all those funny files that travel the Internet being forwarded; otherwise they would allow the reading of all the recipients to whoever receives that E-Mail. ;)