How to Add a Bcc: Recipient to a Message in Windows Live Hotmail

The To field, of course, is all you need to address a message in Windows Live Hotmail.

What if you want to avoid a long litany of email address in that field (say, when distributing your latest do-it-yourself adventures), or need to copy somebody without their address visible to other recipients?

For these needs, there is Bcc: — blind carbon copy. Recipients in this field will get a copy alright, but their addresses are deleted before the message is delivered (to all recipients).

Windows Live Hotmail does not expose the Bcc: field right away, but adding recipients to it is still easy.

Add a Bcc: Recipient to a Message in Windows Live Hotmail

To add recipients to the Bcc: field when composing a message in Windows Live Hotmail:

• Click Show Cc & Bcc (right above the To... line, to the right; or below the Subject: line, depending on which version of Windows Live Hotmail you use).
• Type the desired recipient's email address in the Bcc... (or Bcc:) field or use the Bcc... (or Bcc:) button to select people from your contacts.
  • If you add more than one recipient, separate them with semicolons (like: "tina@example.com; tim@example.com").

Using Bcc..., you can also send an email to "undisclosed recipients" from Windows Live Hotmail.