Does "Reply all" send replies to BCC recipients?

[Todd's keyboard]

Am being CC'd a series of reminiscent e-mails by someone. I suspect that person is included others using BCC. (BTW, this is fine with me.)

If I "Respond all" will BCC folk also receive my e-mail?

thanks, Todd's keyboard

[TheTominator]

No.

Reply All will only be able to reply to the e-mail addresses sent along with the e-mail in the headers. BCC addresses are never sent to the recipient in the e-mail headers. That's the point of the "Blind" in BCC.

In other words, Reply All has no way of knowing who are the BCC's on the e-mail you received so it is impossible to send to them.

[Onamuji]

Anyone BCCd on the original message will not be included in the reply.

You can't reply-all to include people whose addresses aren't in the original email message.

Think about it: How would your email software find those addresses?

[JoeH]

That should only happen if the emails are being processed through a listserver or other mean for handling a mailing lists. The blind par of BCC means your copy should have no information about the others getting the email through BCC attached to it. So your email software should have no ability to reply to any people listed in a Bcc: field used by the sender.

[Todd's keyboard]

Thanks.

Thinking this through, someone who was BCC'd can Reply All to everyone (except for other people who were BCC'd)?

thanks again, T's kb

[NewtonMP2100]

....no BCCs are not added......

[Onamuji]

Todd's keyboard wrote:
Thanks.

Thinking this through, someone who was BCC'd can Reply All to everyone (except for other people who were BCC'd)?

thanks again, T's kb

If you received a message that had all of the other recipients BCCd then your copy of the message would not contain any of the other recipients' email addresses and your reply-all message would only be sent to the original sender.

If you received a message where some recipients were BCCd and some recipients were not BCCd then email addresses for those recipients who were not BCCd would be present in the copy of the message that you received.

If you then used "reply all" on that message where some recipients were BCCd and some were not then you would be replying to the sender and to those recipients who were not BCCd.

[Dennis S]

My non-gmail emails have a link called "show details" under the "from." "Reply all" would go to those people and the sender, I think.