bcc emails not showing in my sent emails

Thank you so much! None of the other suggestions worked for me, as there isn't even a bcc choice in the preferences, viewing, etc on my version. But I searched for one of the names and it pulled up the sent message with all of the bcc addresses. Really annoying to have to do it this way and I only discovered that it wasn't working as it used to when I forwarded the original and found that I was the only one who received it.

same problem here... very frusterating...

Me too. Annoying to NOT be able to rely on this function. Happened with Snow Leopard as well. Always having to check is Unacceptable.

Hi all,

has anyone figured out a solution to this problem? I sent an email to a group of ppl using bcc and now I can't manage to view the list of ppl I sent the email to. Not even forwarding the email does the trick anymore. Any clues anyone?

Thanks!

Bettina

Hi all,

This may work for you - I think it's what did the trick for me.

Go to Mail, Preferences, Viewing, Show header detail: click the drop down, choose 'bcc' then OK.

My bcc recipients are now showing in sent mail messages.

Cheers!

I had already tried that as I came across that hint somewhere and tried it again now (several times, including restarting Mail). Unfortunately it's not doing the trick. What am I missing ...???

I never found a solution. It looks like the data was lost. Going forward you "shouldn't" loose any more data (any eamils I send now retain their BBC data), but it shouldn't have been lost last time either. The setting works fine for me ONLY with messages I sent AFTER I upgraded to Leopard. Anything from before lost it's data.

Hi Bettina,

There was a Lion update (10.7.3) as well, which might have been the solution for me. I'm not sure exactly what was my solution. Sorry I can't be of more help. Best of luck with it.

Cheers, nmacleod

Hi bob hope,

thanks for that hint, I just tried it and now it works. Seems indeed like there is no way for me to find out who I sent this first email to ... well, at least it's solved for the future. Thanks!

Bettina

I have a brand new mac and am working with the latest version. But, as it turns out, you were probably right with the preference settings, only that it doesn't work retroactively.

Thanks!

Wow! Thanks. This was a quick fix.

this doesn't work, and you sure think it would: a Custom box with Bcc right there. but no. does nothing. no Bccs showing in my Sent box. not in Full Headers. is it missing from the email archive data? that would be great. why has this been a problem for years? imagine all the wasted time of so many people diddling with this sillyness. and there are so many things like this. unpaid beta testers? hours of every company going to useless computer timewasting? and in twenty years who will even know how to write by hand. the 'high tech dark age' ...

I had the same problem after upgrading - before I could go and see who was in the bcc. The workaround for me is to make sure I put my e-mail in the "To" and then the BCC recipients show up in my sent mail.

Same here - very strange. Last Saturday I sent one email to a bunch of people in BCC: and I can see the BCC addresses. Then I sent the same email with everything else the same using "Send again" and changed the BCCs and I CAN'T SEE those BCC recipitents.

Both emails were sent from my Apple Mail version 7.2 that is configred with my gmail acount.

Mystery mystery...

I too, found this VERY frustrating, and while I had my own workaround to always copy and paste the bccs into a new email that I wouldn't send, but would save, this was only useful if I remembered to do that. Once I pressed send with a group of BCCs, I could not see them again on that sent mail.

However, I think I have finally figured out a way to retrieve BCCs from a sent email. In the email search box, type in the name of one person you know you bcc'd on that email. The email will pop up (possibly multiple iterations of it) labeled as Trash, and from there, you can see all the BCCs again and re-copy them. I tried looking directly in the TRASH folder and these previous iterations of the sent email were not visible. They only popped up when I searched a specific name.