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How To Automatically BCC Gmail Emails in Chrome

36 Responses to “How To Automatically BCC Gmail Emails in Chrome”

1. Jennifer Says:
   April 25th, 2012 at 2:53 am

   Thanks very much for this! It seems to work… :-)

2. Owen Says:
   May 23rd, 2012 at 1:52 pm

   One problem: I want the ability to delete the auto bcc prior to sending each email (i’m bccing them into Saleforce, but not every email is to a customer). If I save it as a draft and then re-open it, the bcc is visible and I can delete it prior to sending. But it’s not visible when I first compose a new email. Solution?

3. Tim Bourquin Says:
   September 20th, 2012 at 7:56 am

   I’ve updated the extension to automatically show the BCC field contents so you can change or remove the email address in the BCC field on individual emails.

4. Justin Barton Says:
   October 9th, 2012 at 8:58 pm

   I am using this to auto BCC customers and clients into Salesforce. However, the Options dialogue where I type the BCC email address won’t allow enough characters for my Salesforce BCC email address! (Which is ridiculously long at approximatley 65 characters; about 12-15characters longer than I can currently type in). Can this be updated?

   Thanks!

5. Tim Bourquin Says:
   October 9th, 2012 at 9:08 pm

   Thanks for the tip Justin! v.1.0.4 has been uploaded. The character limit for the BCC email has been removed.

6. Chantel Says:
   October 11th, 2012 at 4:04 pm

   Thank you so much for providing this work around. It is EXACTLY what I needed. You should sell this idea to Salesforce to post on their help forums!

   Again, many thanks!

7. Tim Bourquin Says:
   October 11th, 2012 at 4:07 pm

   Glad you found us Chantel!

8. Bernt Says:
   October 14th, 2012 at 3:45 am

   Nice extension, would it be possible to set what email it should work for? In my company we have several emails account we are using , like sales@…order@… So we log into to several accounts at the same time and I would like your script to only be activated for order@…. Thanks in advance

9. Tim Bourquin Says:
   October 14th, 2012 at 8:50 am

   Bernt, Thanks for the comment. I’ll look into adding that in a future version. It would be great to be able to set a separate BCC email for each “from” address you have in Gmail (or no BCC email at all for specific addresses).

10. Luca Says:
    October 18th, 2012 at 4:15 pm

    I second that! One Bbc for each identity in gmail!!

11. Mark Says:
    October 25th, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    Terrific, thank you!

    Now the address length limitation is gone, is there any chance you could accept the address as “Friendly Name” because sometimes the addresses are a random string and the friendly name helps to remind where it’s BCC’ing to.

    Chrome: 22.0.1229.94 (Official Build 161065) m

12. Steve Says:
    October 31st, 2012 at 5:46 am

    Hi great extension and works perfectly thanks! 2 enhancement requests pls:

    1. I’d like the ability to indicate an email address for *both* the CC: and BCC: lines. The reason is some people prefer CC while others prefer BCC. You could offer both.

    2. I’d like the ability to include *multiple* email addresses for either CC or BCC, just separated by commas or semicolons or whatever (right now your code tests for a “valid” email address and rejects attempts to enter more than 1 address separated by any delimiter)

    Thanks again!

13. Tim Bourquin Says:
    October 31st, 2012 at 1:11 pm

    We’re beginning work on these features in the coming weeks. Thanks for the comment.

14. Tara Tooley Says:
    November 2nd, 2012 at 5:28 am

    OMG – I’m so HAPPY. I’ve been having a personality conflict with Mozilla Thunderbird for months now – primarily because it had the BCC…. back to Gmail. Yipeeeeeeee!

    Any suggestions for a more robust email template set up with in Gmail? Gmail’s “canned responses” leaves quite a bit to be desired.

15. Mark Says:
    November 5th, 2012 at 6:09 pm

    Aargh! Google have a new Compose editor now. Any chance you could patch this extension to work with it also?

16. Mark Says:
    November 5th, 2012 at 6:16 pm

    Fortunately I’ve found how to revert to the old Compose editor. Phew! (won’t be long until it’s changed I would imagine)

17. Tim Bourquin Says:
    November 5th, 2012 at 7:31 pm

    Mark for now you’ll need to use the old compose. If they go with the new one permanently ( I hope not – I don’t like it!) then we’ll work on getting the extension updated.

18. Eli Says:
    November 6th, 2012 at 6:21 pm

    How do you disable the showing of the bcc automatically? This is a great extension for monitoring kids emails. Google already lets you setup copies for incoming emails, but this fulfills the sending side. But, if we show the bcc in the composer, they’ll remove it.

    Excellent extension. So much better than the gmailAutoBcc where you have to install another extension to make it work and it doesn’t.

19. Tim Bourquin Says:
    November 6th, 2012 at 8:35 pm

    HI Eli, unfortunately there’s not a way to remove the BCC field automatically showing. We designed it that way to remind us each email was being BCC’d and to also allow us to remove it easily from specific emails we were writing if we wanted to. But I can see in your situation why you wouldn’t want it to show!

20. Jeff Quinn Says:
    January 3rd, 2013 at 7:59 am

    Another vote for the ability to select which email or identity that the BCC will be used with. Without this ability, it is too dangerous that you would forget and accidentally forward emails with sensitive information to a group.

21. Tara Tooley Says:
    January 5th, 2013 at 8:39 pm

    I’ve been using this for 2 months now – still singing YIPEEEEEEEEEEE!!

    I would say my only complaint is it is hard to find on line when (searching BCC Gmail) I wanted to tell a friend. I installed it and had no idea how to find it again. LOL I found it!

    Suggestion – Bookmark this page so you don’t loose it.

    THANKS AGAIN!

22. Johan Lund Says:
    January 10th, 2013 at 4:27 am

    It works great with the old gmail composer, but it doesn’t seem to work with the new GUI, wich most of us use…

    We would be really happy if it would…

23. admin Says:
    January 10th, 2013 at 5:08 am

    I hear you Johan, but the new Compose window would probably take an entire re-write of the extension. So unless Gmail forces everyone to use that at some point (and I pray they don’t – I’m not a fan), we’ll likely not adjust for it.

24. James Goodridge Says:
    January 30th, 2013 at 2:15 am

    Hi Tim, This looks like a fantastic extension and is work that is really appreciated. Unfortunately it has invalidated my requested bcc: email address because it has a “+” symbol in the string of text before the “@” sign. Is there an intentional reason for this?

25. Tim Bourquin Says:
    January 30th, 2013 at 7:33 am

    Hi James – thanks for the kind words. The programmer must have done it that way thinking it was validating the format of the email. You don’t see many “+” signs in emails! But certainly it shouldn’t be causing a problem. I am having them work on the next version of this and I will include that fix in the next one. I hope to have it out soon.

26. Tim Bourquin Says:
    February 1st, 2013 at 3:57 pm

    Auto BCC Gmail Chrome 3.0 has been uploaded for anyone following the comments. You can now BCC a different email address for each “from” account you have in Gmail, plus a few other bug fixes. Bang on it for a while and let me know what you think.

27. Tim Bourquin Says:
    April 20th, 2013 at 1:13 pm

    Version 3.0 has been uploaded and the Chrome extension now works with the new Gmail Compose window. Let me know if you see any problems or bugs.

28. Syd Salmon Says:
    May 2nd, 2013 at 11:41 am

    Hey Tim!

    Finally! A solution that seems to work consistently. As advertised, it works with the new Gmail Compose window.

    It didn’t pick up the addresses from all of my accounts. I accessed the local database on Chrome and added them manually. This worked like a charm.

    The code looks compact and clean. Good job!

    Many thanks!

29. Tim Bourquin Says:
    May 2nd, 2013 at 11:43 am

    Thanks for the comment Syd. Glad it worked for you.

30. Allison Says:
    May 6th, 2013 at 6:04 am

    I can’t seem to get this to recognize my google apps email address. Does it not work with google apps?

31. Tim Bourquin Says:
    May 6th, 2013 at 8:05 am

    It should work with any email address Allison. You may try closing Chrome after you install it and re-launch the browser.

32. Bob Randklev Says:
    May 9th, 2013 at 2:38 pm

    Love the extension but it conflicts with MightyText extension for txting on Android phone from browser.
    Has anyone else reported? Both programs are important so I’d love to help find a fix.
    FYI: MightyText is web to Android app that syncs txt messages and you can reply/text from your browser.
    After I installed BCC it stopped working???
    Thanks

33. Tim Bourquin Says:
    May 9th, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    Hi Bob – haven’t heard of any conflicts and I don’t know why it would affect it. There isn’t any connection between the two.

34. Andrei Says:
    May 17th, 2013 at 6:04 am

    Hi Tim,

    Great extension, I recently discovered it and I use it daily now.

    There is only one annoying thing: when I compose a new email it moves the focus from the “to” field to the “text” field. Would be great to preserve the default gmail focus in a future version.

    thank you,
    Andrei

35. Tim Bourquin Says:
    May 17th, 2013 at 7:14 am

    Hi Andrei – I don’t see that same issue. Is that with the new Compose window or the old one? I’ve tried to replicate this and can’t seem to.

36. Andrei Says:
    May 19th, 2013 at 11:35 am

    Hi Tim – yes, with the new compose. It happens both when starting a new email and when I forward an email. Here is my configuration:

    Chrome Version 26.0.1410.65
    Mac OS 10.6.8
    autoBcc_cr 3.0

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