The release notes for V7 state, in one place, that there is a “new icon that indicates whether a mail item was sent to the recipient only; no cc or bcc recipients,” and in another place that “Users can now display a view level icon within the Inbox that shows if they are the only one, or one of a few listed, in the To and/or CC field.”
Which is it? The second statement sounds more likely to me - how would Notes know if an e-mail sent to me was bcc’d to someone else? It also sounds much more desireable. If I send a note to someone and bcc someone else, I don’t want the recipient to know I bcc’d anyone, even if they don’t know who it was. That’s the whole point.
This is a sticking point for us for upgrading. Can anyone tell me the correct interpretation of this new feature?
Subject: Q about Mail Icon for single recipient vs. multiple To, CC, or Bcc
Take “to the recipient only” to mean that the recipient can choose to display the “to me” icon if he/she appears solo in the SendTo, and there are no CopyTo recipients using the settings on the Calandar Profile document. The BCC field is not populated in the primary recipient’s copy of the mail document, so the view can’t display any information based on the original sender’s addressing choices.
The object of the game is to give the recipient a chance to determine how important the message is to him/her, not to give away secrets.
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you wrote "Below is an example where the solid circles indicate emails sent just to me; the half shaded circle (or half empty for you pessimists out there!) indicates that I am one of the first five people listed in the To field, and the empty circle indicates I was either in the To field but further in the list of names than one of the first five, or I was in the CC list. "
Does your place in the list really matters?
I thought it meant “one of at most five”(as it says on my client)?
Subject: RE: See here, it will explain it a bit more…
Thanks, Alan! That explains it perfectly. I suspected the remark about the bcc field was a typo in the Version 7 Features announcement, but I wanted to double check.
Subject: Re: Q about Mail Icon for single recipient vs. multiple To, CC, or Bcc
I think it unlikely that Lotus would put such a large hole in bcc functionality. A likely interpretation of the first note is that if YOU are the bcc recipient, it will display a charactistic icon.