Emails are part of everyday life for many users, and certainly, if you have used them, you must have noticed two somewhat “strange” fields on message headers: CC and BCC.
These fields appear in the same area where users can place message recipients, subject, among other details. But what exactly are they?
That's what we're going to explain in this article, and who knows, it might even be something that will have advantages for the future when sending email messages in this format.
- What is CC?
CC is an acronym of the English “carbon copy”. This refers to the practice of using carbon paper to create copies of messages at the time of letters. This was done to allow copies of messages to be quickly created without having to rewrite the contents.
The idea applies the same to emails. The CC is used when you want to send a copy of the email messages to different contacts, and the addresses placed there receive the messages that are sent in the conversation.
It should be noted that this is different from putting the address in the “To”, where as a rule, if a person replies, he will send that message to all the addresses in that field. In the case of CC, someone's reply to the conversation will be sent only to the sender of the message - unless you choose the "Reply to all" option.
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The main advantage of the CC will be exactly to avoid that, during a conversation, someone can reply to the email and send this message to all the participants in the same.
- What is the BCC?
BCC can be translated as “Blind Carbon Copy”. Functionality is basically identical to that of CC, but with the particularity that the addresses placed in this field will not appear for other users.
That is, when sending a message with addresses in the CC field, other users can see the emails to which the messages were sent. In the case of the BCC this does not happen.
BCC is often used for sending promotional emails in companies, as it allows messages to be sent without all users having access to the company's other emails.
Obviously, this does not prevent access to messages that may have been sent in the email conversation as well as attachments. That is, the contents of messages can still be transferred to other contacts if they are not manually removed by users.
