[philm]

Today I needed to check an old e-mail to confirm the list of people to whom I had sent a report. At the time, all the recipients went in the BCC box because I did not want them to know who received the report (that, of course, being the purpose of BCC).

Today, when I reviewed the e-mail I was surprised that Mail.app does not record this list in the Sent folder. All that is present is the main 'To' recipient (myself in this case), but none of the BCC information is recorded.

I was somewhat surprised by this. Is this common with all e-mail clients?

[JKT]

I just did a test send to myself and the BCC field of recipients is visible in the sent message for me. I have All Headers shown by default (Preferences>Viewing>Show header detail: ) so maybe that is the difference. You can toggle All Headers for a message by pressing Command-Shift-H when you are viewing it.

[philm]

Ah ha, that works. So, in 'Sent' messages, CC addresses show up by default, but BCC addresses require Long Headers to be displayed. This seems a bit inconsistent to me, but thanks for pointing that out. Cheers.