What are the CC and Bcc fields for on emails?

[mkjuk]

Why not just put all the addresses in the address bar seperated by a comma?

[khana]

BCC stands for blind carbon copy, eg the other recipients of the email do not see who else it has been sent to...handy for a mailing list etc.

[Whickerman]

When you use CC in business, it's to allow people to input their tuppence worth, even though the main text isn't addressed to them. EG - imagine you're being told that there's a change to a work order. The sender can use CC to ensure your boss knows too.

BCC is just sneaky, but can be useful...

[snook]

Imagine running a newsletter and you have a ten thousand name mailing list... would you really want to type them all in, carefully putting a comma between each one as you do so? Instead, you can create a group (using Outlook Express, and I'm sure it's the same for other email clients) and you just have to enter the group's name for them all to be sent the mail. As for CC and BCC, I think that's a separate question, and it's already been answered, above.

[Confab]

You can put all the addresses in the address bar In Outlook or Outlook Express they need to be separated by a semicolon not a comma.

Cc - carbon copy is used to just copy someone else in on the mail. It's not really for them, just for their reference.

Bcc - Blind carbon copy is the same as Cc but the other recipients can't see who the mail has been sent to as they can with Cc