Re: Preventing the use of CC: in outlook express.

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I don't believe that there is any way to disable CC in OE.

Since CC is functionally the same as TO, you'd also have to disable TO
and I don't think you'd want to do that.

Potentially, something could be done at your SMTP mail server, assuming
that you have an in-house mail server. It would need to check the TO
and CC headers and reject the message if there are multiple e-mail
addresses or even strip or truncate the headers. Or possibly you could
write or find some SMTP proxy software that would filter on the sending.
In any case, this needs to be done outside of Outlook Express.

As for printing, for incoming messages, OE will print only the name if
that is provided. OE will print the e-mail address only if that is all
that is provided.

As for sending, to control what the recipient can print you'd have to
remove e-mail addresses from the TO and CC headers.

Note that for routing, the mail servers don't use the TO and CC headers.
The actual e-mail addresses are carried outside of the message. That's
how BCC works since the BCC header is not included in the sent message.
But some mail servers will reject messages unless there is a TO header
with a validly formatted e-mail address. This isn't a requirement for
e-mail transmission but rather a spam control measure.



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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"WSS Dave" <WSSDave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is there a way to "prevent" the use of Carbon Copy in sending e-mails.
We
would prefer to have BCC: as the ONLY choice. (To prevent the
distribution
of names and e-mail addresses with our e-mails to multiple
recipients.) Even
better, be able to print the NAME, but NOT THE EMAIL ADDRESS.
--
SewVac


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