CC and BCC

CC (Carbon Copy) and BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) are standard email features that Private.Ki supports, working essentially the same as anywhere:

• CC (Carbon Copy): When you CC someone on an email, it means you are sending them a copy for their awareness. The CC recipients are visible to all other recipients. For instance, if you email Alice and CC Bob, Alice will see that Bob got a copy, and Bob sees Alice was a main recipient. Use CC when you want others to see who else is receiving the email, and typically when those recipients might need to know it was shared openly.

• BCC (Blind Carbon Copy): BCC recipients receive the email, but are not visible to the other recipients (whether main TO or CC). So if you BCC Charlie on that email to Alice (with Bob CCed), Alice and Bob do not know Charlie got it. Only you, the sender, can see in your Sent items that Charlie was BCCed. BCC is used for sending a copy discreetly or for large mailing lists where you don’t want to expose everyone’s addresses to each other.

How to use CC and BCC

When composing an email, you can add CC by clicking on the CC link in the compose window:

You can then click into the CC field and enter one or more email addresses to copy – just like adding multiple “To” recipients:

Once you have the addresses filled in, compose your email as usual and hit Send. he recipients in the CC field will each get the email and will see all the “To” and “CC” addresses.

To add BCC recipients, click on BCC:

Same as with CC, the interface will expand to show a separate BCC field underneath the “To” field:

The recipients in the BCC will get the email but will not see that they were BCC’d (and they won’t see any other BCC addresses either).

You can also combine CC and BCC: