BCC in Gmail: a feature or a bug
Update:(15-Aug-2006) Well, it seems that the Bcc filed is displayed only if you are the sender of the message. The confusion is because in Gmail even the sent mails are displayed in Inbox itself for conversation view. Thanks Rajiv for pointing it out.
Recently, one of my friends brought up to my notice that in Gmail even the Bcc field gets displayed. My initial reaction was “No it’s not possible!”. Then I tried to test it by sending myself a mail and to my surprise, even the Bcc field got displayed.
Here is the screen shot.
I tried Googling around but couldn’t get a satisfying answer. So can anyone throw some light on this and let me know whether it is a feature or a bug or am doing something wrong.
PS: Yuvi, can you gather any information about my browsing activities from this screenshot as you did for Aswin? 
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I don’t think this is a bug. I sent a mail from my Yahoo account to my GMail account and put a BCc to my HotMail account (yes, I’m one of those ppl who continue to use Yahoo and HotMail inspite of using GMail !!). I did not get the BCc address when I checked that mail in GMail.
If I am not wrong, you must have got this because you have sent a mail from your GMail to your GMail itself. May be you are getting the BCc address because of this. I guess there is nothing wrong in showing the BCc field to the sender !!
Ya Rajiv, you are correct. The Bcc filed is displayed only if you are the sender.
Cheers,
Sudar
Sudar,
Yahoo BETA compose page has a variant of it. It follows Outlook/Outlook Express. By default, BCC is not shown rather you see a link ‘Add BCC’ and then the Bcc: appears.
Ya, and it would be nice if there is a setting by which we can automatically enable it instead of clicking the link each time. But anyways I don’t use Yahoo nowadays. It’s too slow for me and gmail has got into my blood too much ;-).
Cheers,
Sudar
I also get this problem.
I have one more problem.
While I sent email from yahoo account Bcc to my gmail account, Surprise! I didn’t get email.
How this is possible?
Can anyone tell me?