Automatic bcc another address?

See if this works: Select the BCC Myself option. Then, in Rules:

Select "Any" (If ANY of the following conditions...); select Account (your own that's being BCC-ed).

Under "Perform the following actions", select Forward Message; then fill in your secretary's email address after To.

If this doesn't work with Account, try selecting "Sender is member of group" and create a new Group in AddressBook where only your BCC address is listed.

It's a kind of work-around, if not a run-around, but worth a try.

I'm having the same problem, wanting to add default Bcc and Reply-To addresses. I opened another thread (mistakenly on 10.5 forum) where someone suggested trying the approaches on the following site:

http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/01/28/adding-a-default-reply-to-address-in-mailapp /

Unfortunately, I was unsuccessful. The script suggestion didn't work because the link to the mac.com web page is broken. The Terminal command approach also didn't work for me for some reason. Perhaps it will work for you.

Bob

Hi, Deborah

It turns out that the Terminal approach suggested in my earlier post does work, in a stealthy sort of way.

The details are given in a post on macosxhints - http://www.macosxhints.com/comment.php?mode=view&cid=11055 - explaining how to use Terminal commands to provide default Mail Reply-To and Bcc addresses. In Terminal, use the following command to specify the desired defaults addresses:

defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Reply-To" = " mydefaultreplytoaddress"; "Bcc" = " mydefaultbccaddress"; }'

Be careful of the syntax, especially the ";"s. Obviously, replace the italicized addresses with those you want.

Verify that they have been successfully entered using:

defaults read com.apple.mail UserHeaders

The stealth part of this is that these default addresses are not visible when you are preparing an outgoing message. When you send the message, these default addresses are in fact acted upon. Vlad pointed this out to me in another thread.

Bob

Is anyone aware of a way to set a simlar thing up where any email sent out gets bcc'd to another email account as well. I know i could set up a rule but I am looking for a more "stealthy" way..

Thanks 🙂

Sorry that made no sense. What I am looking for is a way that any emails RECEIVED are routed to another email address as well as kept in the one that originally received it. We are trying to set up a archiving protocol so that any email sent or received by the office is all emailed to a specific email address and a clerical member of our staff would then do the printing and filing of all emails.

Any suggestions?

Here's my two-part suggestion using Rules in Preferences:

1. Create a new Rule called Forward All.

On the first line, make it read "If ANY of the following conditions are met:"
Next line, select "Every Message";
Under Perform the following actions, select "Forward Message" then fill in the email address you want your messages sent to. (I assume it keeps the message in your Account and Forwards it, as there is also a Redirect command which would just keep the message moving.)

That takes care of your incoming messages.

2. To get a copy of your own outbound email, go to:

Preferences > Composing and select "Automatically BCC myself".

Theoretically, your BCC incoming message will encounter your Forward All rule and be Forwarded to your archive mailbox.

The downside is that your unwanted spam and other junk will also be sent to your archive mail account, so you might use "If Sender is in my Address Book" option, or one of the others that works best for you. Just be sure that your incoming email account is in your Address Book, too.

i have the same problem.
i am using Mail.app on Mac OS X 10.4.10
and i would love to solve this issue.

any ideas?

i guess there is no answer for this !!