I understand the purpose of a BCC field…so that the person in the BCC field is the only one who knows that they were sent that specific email and every other recipient doesn’t know they received it…
However, I have a mail/inbox database where the users of this inbox want to show in their view if/if not someone was sent within the BCC…and who.
I understand that if it was BCC to that specific inbox, it will show. However, for instances where it was BCCed to someone else, of course it won’t show. Understandable…
I’m wondering if there is any other way around this? Could I create an agent to be generated when the email is sent to save this field value so it will populate in the column of the view?
If so, I’m unfamiliar with building agents for mail databases. How can you trigger it when the user clicks ‘send’?
Subject: RE: BCC field show up in column of view??
You could modify your mail template to store a copy of the BCC information when a memo is sent, but doesn’t that defeat the purpose? If people want to let others know who else got the memo they can use CC. Are you saying you don’t want the BCC functionality? Then hide that field and force people to use CC instead. Otherwise you’re giving them an unjustied expectation of privacy. Lying to them, in fact.
If any of the recipients aren’t in the Notes mail system (or if the email is sent to someone in your system by way of the internet mail gateway) then any information you write in extra fields is not retained.
To write an agent to populate the fields after the fact, would require that the agent have access to the mail files of both the recipients and the sender, because that information only exists in the sender’s mail file (and then only if they saved a copy of the message), but it must be stored in the recipients’ mail files.
Subject: RE: BCC field show up in column of view??
We want to be able to search (or somehow see) any email from a particular user that contains any bcc. This is for auditing in specific instances.
This thread looked promising, but seems to have died. Does anyone have any ideas? Adding a bcc column in a (grid) view would be perfect!
Thanks.