FG
💻 Software

Is BCCing e-mails guaranteed to be reliable?

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 20263068 views
Confidence Score0%
0%

Problem

In other words is it a safe assumption that no-one of recipients will ever see e-mails in BCC? What if the recipient is an administrator of his (but not sender's) mail server and can do any modifications to his server?

Unverified for your environment

Select your OS to check compatibility.

1 Fix

Canonical Fix
Unverified Fix
New Fix – Awaiting Verification

Fix for: Is BCCing e-mails guaranteed to be reliable?

Low Risk

No. SMTP is a plaintext protocol, using store-and-forward methods. What this means: Plaintext: Every server that relays this message sees it in its entirety, including all header information. Although each recipient in the BCC field typically gets t…

Awaiting Verification

Be the first to verify this fix

Sign in to verify this fix

Environment