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Maintain BCC addresses when copying sent email

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Rivercoon
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I would like to copy an email saved in my sent file and edit it to create a new email. Easy enough but it was originally sent to a long list of people as BCCs. I would like to retain these addresses when copying the original message and send the new email to them. How do I do this? Everything I've tried strips out the BCCs when copying the message to an new email.

I would like to copy an email saved in my sent file and edit it to create a new email. Easy enough but it was originally sent to a long list of people as BCCs. I would like to retain these addresses when copying the original message and send the new email to them. How do I do this? Everything I've tried strips out the BCCs when copying the message to an new email.

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What have you tried?

Edit As New and Reply to All both seem to work for me with the copy in my Sent folder.

I would prefer Edit As New since it genuinely creates a new message; reply would keep a link to the previous message, which may not be appropriate.

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Zenos
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But you're not supposed to see the other Bcc addressees. How come you have such a list?

Ah, OK, I get it. It's a copy of a message you sent previously.

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What have you tried?

Edit As New and Reply to All both seem to work for me with the copy in my Sent folder.

I would prefer Edit As New since it genuinely creates a new message; reply would keep a link to the previous message, which may not be appropriate.

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Rivercoon
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AHA! Now I see. When I Reply All or Edit As New the BCC addresses are being put onto individual fields that can be scrolled through instead of in a single block divided by commas as in the original email. I just wasn't seeing them.

Thank you.

Matt
Matt
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comma separation is something Microsoft do with their mail programs. Thunderbird has rudimentary support, but is is not a good idea to use it as everything is designed around those scrollable boxes..