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How to Automatically Cc: All Mail You Send in Outlook

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

Outlook's Sent Items folder is perfect for keeping copies of all emails you have sent. What, though, if it is perfect, but not good enough?

What if you want to archive all your mail at a different email account or need to carbon-copy a boss for a while?

With a simple rule swiftly created you can make Outlook send a Cc: copy of all mail you create to a specific email address (or more than one) automatically.

Automatically Cc: All Mail You Send in Outlook

To send a carbon-copy of all mail you send in Outlook to a particular email address:

  • Select Tools | Rules and Alerts... from the menu.
  • Click New Rule....
  • Highlight Check messages after sending.
  • Click Next >.
  • Click Next > again to copy all mail you send.
    • You can define any combination of criteria to copy only certain messages before clicking Next >.
  • If you specified no filtering criteria, click Yes.
  • Make sure Cc the message to people or distribution list is checked under Step 1: Select action(s).
  • Click people or distribution lists under Step 2: Edit the rule description.
  • Double-click contacts or lists from your address book or type an email address under To ->.
    • Separate multiple addresses with semicolons (;).
  • Click OK.
  • Click Next >.
  • Click Next > again.
  • Precede the email address already entered under Step 1: Specify a name for this rule with "Cc: ".
  • Click Finish.
  • Click OK.

Automatically Bcc: All Mail You Send in Outlook

You can send automatic Bcc: copies (whose recipients, unlike Cc: recipients, will be hidden from all other addressees) in Outlook using automatic Bcc add-ons.

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