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When you spot Cc and Bcc in the recipient email section of Gmail, do you find yourself questioning their significance? Wondering about the when and how of using them? Dive into this article to explore the concepts of CC and BCC in Gmail.
Here, we share information and specific examples to help you comprehend CC and BCC in Gmail.
What are CC and BCC in Gmail?
Normally, when you just need to send an email to someone, you may overlook CC and BCC. CC and BCC will appear in the recipient section To in the new email composition window.
When you send an email to multiple people at once, CC and BCC will be very helpful.
CC stands for Carbon copy, and BCC stands for Blind carbon copy. You can understand simply that CC and BCC are copies of the main recipient email used to send to many people. The emails in CC and BCC
When you use CC, all contacts in the recipient list in CC can see each other's email addresses.
As for BCC, no contact in the recipient list in BCC knows who this email is sent to, only seeing that it is sent solely to their own Gmail.
Additionally, in Gmail, if you don't select CC or BCC when sending an email, by default, when sending an email to a group of contacts, it will be sent in CC format.
When to use CC?
Use CC when you send publicly accessible emails, without needing to secure the emails in the recipient list. For example, sending documents to students in a class, sending materials to members in a group...
Every contact in CC will know to whom this email is sent.
Example of using CC to send emails in Gmail.
You send an email to a group of Gmail contacts, in the recipient section, you choose CC and enter the contacts you want to send the email to, then send the email.
As a result, all recipients in CC will receive the email and will see to whom this email is sent when viewing the recipient list.
When should you use BCC?
Use BCC when you want to send an email to many people and need to keep information about other contacts confidential. Contacts entered in BCC will be secure, and no one can see to whom this email is sent.
Example of using BCC to send emails in Gmail.
Compose your email, then in the recipient section, choose BCC and enter the contacts you want to receive the email.
As a result, all recipients in BCC receive the email, but only see the email sent to themselves.
Example of using CC and BCC
To better understand CC and BCC in Gmail, let's look at the example below.
For instance, you send an email to one main address, CC is another email, BCC is yet another email, as shown in the image below.
Both Gmail accounts in the To (main recipient) and CC sections receive the email and only know that the email is sent to two emails without knowing it is also sent to the BCC email.
The Gmail in BCC receives the email and knows that it is sent to three people, including Gmail in the To, CC, BCC sections.
With the information shared in this article about CC and BCC, it is hoped that you will have a clearer understanding of CC and BCC when sending emails in Gmail. Depending on the specific purpose of your email, you can choose CC or BCC accordingly. Best of luck to you all!
