23424Its been a long time since I last posted on the site, but it was due to “A Series of Unfortunate Exams” that kept me away from blogging.
In the meantime I got many forwarded emails in my mailbox, but all my friends don’t even know how to forward an email in a correct way, they just hit the forward button and with all the email ids still in the mail, it is being forwarded thereby creating a jackpot for email harvesters.

Now you may ask what “email harvesters” are; basically these may be people or automated programs that collect email addresses of other people generally to sell to spammers and advertising agencies(and you wonder how the spammer got your email id, you gave it to him).

You must be wondering that if forwarding cause that much trouble then I might say you should stop forwarding, but this is not the case, the email providers have devised ways to properly forward emails without any email being shown to anyone else and I am going to mention that only in this post so that you can forward emails safely.

Forwarding Emails:

  1. You got an email from your friend that you want to forward(or you created one by yourself).
  2. Just delete anyone’s email id present in that mail(as soon as you click the forward button, a header containing the info regarding to who sent it to you is placed, just remove that header completely so that no-ones email id is disclosed).
  3. Write your own email address in the “To” field(yes your own, will tell you later in the post about these fields).
  4. Now write all the email addresses you want the mail to be forwarded to in the “BCC” field.(This means Blind Carbon Copy, it will also be explained)
  5. Press the send button and your safe forwarded email is on its way to your friends.

By using this method, every recipient will get only his/her email id in the email and your too but not anyone else.

Now The Fields in the email form

  1. TO
    You write the email address of the person to whom the email is designated to.
  2. CC
    (Carbon Copy)This is almost the same as TO except that it says CC and in this also, all the email addresses in the TO and CC fields are disclosed to everyone receiving the email.
  3. BCC
    (Blind Carbon Copy)In this field you write the email addresses of the people who’ll receive the copy of the email but no-one’s email address in the BCC will be disclosed to anyone(only FROM, TO and CC fields will be displayed to everyone and in the above procedure, FROM and TO fields contains your ID only)

(For better definitions refer to some good sites like Wikipedia since I don’t know the definitions)

So from now onwards, take care that if you forward any email to me, make sure to write my email in the BCC field because I don’t like any spam emails in my mailbox saying me to buy viagra, breast enhancement creams, pen** enlargement drugs, muscle building drugs or something like that…

Happy forwarding emails…..