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From Leo's mailbag:

> From: A Computer User
> Sent: October 22, 2005
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: proving you bcc'ed someone
>
> Leo,

> I use Windows XP and use Outlook. I sent out an email to
> clients using Bcc to keep their email addresses private. Now
> one of them wants me to prove that I sent them the email on
> the date I said I sent it. But when I try to forward the
> email to him, it won't show the Bcc addresses. How can I
> show him, short of making him come to my office to look at my
> computer, that I sent him this email? Thank you so much in
> advance if you can help me with this.

Well, the whole idea of BCC is to hide the addresses, so I'm
not surprised that it fails to include it on a forward as well.

If it's just proof you need, I'd be tempted to take a screen
shot of your computer screen when you're looking at the message
showing the BCC list. This article might help with that:
http://ask-leo.com/whats_a_screen_shot_and_how_do_i_make_one.html

Thanks for asking,

Leo

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