The BCC header, as the name suggests sends the email to the recipients, but unlike TO and CC the other recipients can’t also see who else has been BCC’ed in.

This is obviously very beneficial when sending the same email to many people and for privacy you shouldn’t be disclosing everyone else’s email address.

I recently received an email from T-mobile UK which did exactly this. A mass email to numerous people, and everybody was in the TO. Details include full names, email addresses and even some phone numbers.

Recently i decided to start using Microsoft Outlook 2007 instead of Windows Mail which comes default with Vista, now in Windows Mail i counted a total of 5 simple clicks to turn on read receipts, so every email i sent requests one – you can see a tutorial for how to turn on read receipts for Window Mail here - in Outlook it takes a few more, as shown below.

Firstly click the Tools tab in the menu and select “Options”.

Now on the next option simply select “E-mail Options…” which will open (yet) another menu.

And now on this menu if you select “Tracking Options…”  you will be presented with the final menu.

Now on this menu you can see it gives you a tick box of “Read Receipt” tick this box to enable read receipt requests.

Additionally you can set other settings below, to either Always send a read receipt, never send one or to always ask you if you want to send one each time you send an email.

Hopefully you found this tutorial quick and easy in explaining how to request read reciepts in Outlook.

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This is a simply little tutorial on how to use or turn on Read Receipts in Windows Mail.

First go the tools menu and select “Options…”.

On the window above select the receipts tab, now you are presented with multiple settings for read receipts.

Tick the box for “Request a read reciept for all sent messages” and click OK.

And that’s it! Simple and easy, additionally of course you can choose if you wish to be notified every time about to request a read receipt or if they should be sent automatically.

Hopefully you found this tutorial helpful, so please comment!

I have a exchange account from my college, unfortunatly they won’t allow external access using the Microsoft Outlook software (I of course set up my account so i can use MS Outlook inside college) so we are forced to use Micrsoft Outlook Web Access.

However i was unable to compose/reply to messages when using Outlook Web Access when using Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and i got the familar MS Red “X” when i tried to create a new message.

This is not a problem in other browsers, such as IE6 or Google Chrome. The problem is due to security in IE7 where ActiveX and MIME is not accepted.

However this tutorial will quickly guide you through how this can be quickly solved.

1. Login to your Outlook Web Access account using Internet Explorer 7.

Click “Options” on the left pane.

2. Under “Email Security” you can see either Download or Upgrade the S/MIME Control.

Click this to download/update the controls used for the message body.

3. Click run when asked on both message boxes.

The S/MIME will then install.

4. Once the S/MIME has finished installing re-start Internet Explorer 7.

5. You should now find that new messages body is showing and displaying correctly, and you are now able to send email via Outlook Web Access!