How do I set my email account to automatically blind copy me

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dbrite said:
When an email is sent out how do I have it automatically send a copy back
to
me?
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Why would you want to? Outlook by default saves a copy of the sent email in
your Sent Items...
 
Gordon said:
Why would you want to? Outlook by default saves a copy of the sent email in
your Sent Items...
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Because that does not prove that your sending mail server actually got your
e-mail or that your sending mail server ever attempted to actually send your
e-mail. All that does is slide a copy of the sent e-mail generated by your
own e-mail client back into another folder inside the same e-mail client.
Some users need proof that the e-mail actually got sent, not that some copy
operation got performed on their own host. For legal reasons, that your
e-mail server accepted your message is not sufficient "performance" (a legal
term meaning that you expended reasonable effort to effect a condition of a
contract) to prove that you sent an e-mail. In a similar vein, you sliding
a letter with postage into your mailbox for your postman to pickup may not
be sufficient legal proof that you sent the letter. You have to send it
with confirmation delivery, registered, or with some other form of tracking
to prove that you actually sent the letter (and you might even get a notary
to validate the content of the letter to prove what was inside and not just
that you sent "some" letter).

Auto-Bcc also affords you some tracking that your mail server ever bothered
to send your e-mail. You don't get that with a copy put in your Sent Items
folder. The only proof (which is indirect) that a copy in the Sent Items
folder provides is that your e-mail client got back an +OK status from the
DATA command that it used in supposedly sending the message to the mail
server.
 
dbrite said:
When an email is sent out how do I have it automatically send a copy back to
me?
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Google still works:

http://www.google.com/search?q=+outlook++"auto-bcc"
http://www.google.com/search?q=+outlook++"auto-bcc"++free

I know of this one (but haven't used myself):

http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook/Always-BCC.asp

Note that sending a Bcc to yourself by sending the e-mail through your
e-mail account and Bcc'ing to yourself at that same account does NOT prove
that your e-mail server actually sent your e-mail to the recipient(s). Most
e-mail server use redirection for internally routed e-mails. That is, their
e-mail server is not involved if an e-mail from one of their customers is
sent to another of their customers. You also won't see a Received header in
the received (Bcc) copy. You need to send the Bcc copy to yourself at a
different domain than for the e-mail server through which you are sending
your e-mails. So, for example, if you were using your ISP's e-mail service
to send your e-mails, you would Bcc yourself at Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, or
somewhere else to provide the proof that your ISP's e-mail server actually
sent at least one copy of your e-mail and provide some proof that your
e-mail actually got sent out. Obviously you can have your e-mail client
retrieve those Bcc copies from the other-domain accounts (and even use a
rule that moves e-mails sent by yourself from your ISP account and to
yourself at the other-domain to a folder for those Bcc copies).
 
VanguardLH said:
Because that does not prove that your sending mail server actually got
your
e-mail or that your sending mail server ever attempted to actually send
your
e-mail.
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Well for the tiny number of times someone's not received an email that I
have sent over 20 years, it's a pretty spurious reason for doing it IMHO and
just not worth the bother and the duplicate emails that will rapidly grow
into a huge file, especially if they contain large attachments...
 
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