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When you send an e-mail, what's the difference between the To: box and the Cc: box?
I know I must sound like a total idiot but I have no idea!
I know I must sound like a total idiot but I have no idea!
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CC is to carbon copy so an identical copy of the email is sent to others and BCC is blind carbon copy, the same process but others cannot see who else it was addressed to.
Some programs offer 'BCC' which stands for blind carbon copy. People who are entered on the BCC line will not know who the other people are on the mailing list. In contrary, the ones entered on the CC line will be aware of the whole list people that this email has been sent to.
F###! Got beaten to it. We both posted on the same F###ing minute!
Well, technically there is no difference, your emails sent to the CC and to the TO box will be sent in exactly the same way.
However, with a business type email generally what you would do is put ONE person, the person to whom the email is directly applicable, in the TO box, and put other people in the CC box that may benefit from reading the email but to whom perhaps the contents are not as important, or who don't have to act on the contents on the email.
Say for example you had 3 folk, tom, dick and harry. You want to send an email to Tom to say to him that he needs to turn the light off this week, and that dick and harry don't need to turn the light off. In that case you can put Tom in the TO box and dick and harry in the CC box.
So essentially the function of TO or CC allows your recipients to gauge how important an email is to them.
Some people therefore have rules on their mailbox that says if an email is just CCed to them then stick it in a less important folder.