When you send an email there are three options that you can add some recipients to any of these fields
To
Where the main recipient(s) receive the mail.
CC
CC
stands for Carbon Copy sends a copy of the email to the recipients in this field.
The recipients in this field usually just observes what is going on between you The sender
and the ones who receive this mail in the To
recipients field.
Both recipients in To
and CC
can see who received the mail but can not see who is BCC
.
BCC
BCC
stands for Blind Carbon Copy sends a copy of the email to the recipients in this field which they can see the email recipients in To
and CC
fields but the latter ones can not see the recipients in the BCC
Example
You Send Mail:To
: Ali and add his supervisor CC
John to confirm that the mail is sent while the general manager BCC
Hasan is observing secretly without John and Ali knows.
So ALI Knows that John has received the mail but does not know about Hasan
Same applies to john that he knows the mail is sent to
Ali But does not know Hasan has seen the mail.
Hasan receives the mail as well and knows that Ali is the one who is receiving the mail and John is added as well in the CC
field.