


If you are using Outlook on the Web (OWA), you’ll also be warned via the MailTips feature of Exchange.Īlternatively, there are add-ins available which can alert you when you still reply to an email for which you were a hidden recipient. Previous versions of Outlook don’t have such a feature built-in but by using Outlook’s Rules or Conditional Formatting feature, you can create a quite reliable warning mechanism with little effort. Outlook 2016, Outlook 2019 and Outlook as part of an Office 365 subscription will display a MailTip warning above the message header when you press the Reply All button for a message that was BCCed to you. Only afterwards, I realized that I was only a BCC recipient in the original message and thus I now revealed myself to the rest, which the original sender obviously did not want.Īs this can be quite embarrassing, not only to me but also to the original sender, is there any way that Outlook can warn me that I was only a BCC recipient for the email? To keep the conversation intact, I use the Reply All button to respond. On occasion, I receive emails which are sent to multiple people.
