What do CC and BCC mean when sending an email?

Question

You know how when you send an email...they have three boxes. "TO" ...." CC " and " BCC"....what do the other two stand for and what do they do?

For CC....can't you just put a coma in between the email addresses in "to" ??

Answer 1

To : The main recipient/s to whom you want to send the mail. He/they can see all the mail IDs in the TO and CC fields when he/they recieve the mail, and hence he/they will come to know who all have recieved the mail directly (TO) or as a carbon copy (CC)

CC- Carbon copy: Other recipient/s to whom you want to send a copy of the mail. All recipients in the CC field can see all other mail IDs of TO and CC fields when they recieve the mail and hence they will come to know who all have recieved the mail directly (TO) or as a carbon copy (CC)

BCC - Blind carbon copy: The persons included in the BCC will get mail without any information of other mail IDs in BCC to which you have sent the mail. TheTO and CC recipients also wont get any mail IDs of the persons in BCC. So the main recipients will be unware of the persons who got the mail by BCC and all persons in BCC will remain unaware of all other recipients in BCC.

Answer 2

CC means "carbon copy". It allows you to send copies of emails to other people. It's important in business, because the To: field is the person to whom the email is directed and the "CC:" is FYI to other people, but they don't have any expected action items or response. All persons seeing the note also see the CCed persons. BCC means "blind carbon copy". It means that the receivers of the note do not see that you sent the note to the emails in the BCC list. When you have emails that have conflict, then BCC allows you to send a copy to someone without the "audience" (To:, CC:) knowing. This is good for audits or issue management. Carbon copy comes from the "old" days of writing memos at work when we manually made copies of letters using carbon paper. You put the carbon paper between two sheets of paper and as the typewriter or pen struck the page, it would transfer the letters to the 2nd sheet of paper (and 3rd). The original note went to the addressee and the carbon copy went to others as an FYI. Copy machines pretty much did away with carbon paper in the 1980's.

Answer 3

Can l still send email without typing anything in the Cc and the Bcc columns?

Answer 4

CC = Carbon Copy. It sends the same message to other recipients.

BCC = Blind Carbon Copy. It sends the same message to other recipients without them knowing that it was sent to multiple people. If you recieve a message from a BCC list, it will look like it was sent directly to you.

Answer 5

CC means carbon copy. That means the sender is also mailing a copy to other people on the cc list and everyone is informed of this.
BCC means blind carbon copy. That means mean you send an email to the intended sender and he/she will not know you are sending it to anyone else.

Answer 6

CC - Carbon Copy - This will send the mail to the person(s) specified in this field other than the recipient.

BCC - Blind Carbon Copy - This will act like CC but will hide the person(s) marked in this field to the other people specified in To and CC.

Answer 7

What Does Bcc Do

Answer 8

CC MEANS CARBON COPY AND BCC MEANS BLIND CARBON COPY.to what i understand if you want a copy of what ever your e-mailing you use CC.hope this helps

kathy

Answer 9

CC will send the email to additional people
BCC will send email to additional people without the one's who were CC'd knowing

Answer 10

copy carbon and
blind copy carbon.
Copy Carbon: this mean you send copies.
Blind Copy Carbon: this mean you send copies, but the people who you send it to, can't see who else got the message via BCC.