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Aug '07
How to automatically add a bcc in Gmail
by Frank Spychalski filed under Computer

Am I the first person who would like to add a bcc to all outgoing mails in GMail? I just spent some time searching through the settings and looking for a Greasemonkey scripts or firefox plugins which might do the trick. But I found nothing. Not a single tool.

Update 17.9.07:
Thanks to “themaniac” I installed this Greasemonkey script which works perfectly. I was a little bit vexed because I couldn’t find a way to configure the address where the bcc should be sent to. The simple solution: a popup asks for the address the first time a mail is sent ;-)

There is no bcc header but the address I use to receive the bcc’ed mails appears in the received header, so I added these lines to my sieve script to move these mails into the Sent folder.

# bcc'ed mail from gmail
if address :contains "Received" "xxx@yyy.de" {
  fileinto "INBOX.Sent";
  stop;
}

4 Responses to “How to automatically add a bcc in Gmail”

  1. 1

    There’s a “add bcc” link right below the to:

    :))

    RSL (August 28th, 2007 at 13:55)
  2. 2

    OK, after reading my post again, I admit it is possible to misunderstand what I’m asking ;-)

    I’m looking for a tool/script/whatever which automatically adds a bcc-header to all outgoing mails.

    Frank Spychalski (August 28th, 2007 at 20:29)
  3. 3

    No, you’re not the first, there’s a tool that does it automatically that you can get from here. Still, it’s not perfect, as my use case is using gmail when I’m not at my normal computer and so I want the email I send to be automatically bcced back to my normal email address so I can file them in sent-mail.

    http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2255

    themaniac (September 17th, 2007 at 13:55)
  4. 4

    thanks, themaniac. that’s 100% my use-case.

    Frank Spychalski (September 18th, 2007 at 09:29)

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