Can I BCC Someone from My AOL Account?

Yes, you can BCC someone from your AOL account. In AOL Mail, click Compose, click BCC at the right side of the To field, and type the address you want to copy privately. Everyone in the To and CC fields receives the email without seeing the BCC address.

AOL’s Compose and send emails in AOL Mail help page covers the basic compose steps. The BCC steps were tested in AOL Mail in a desktop web browser such as Chrome, Firefox, or Edge.

What Is BCC?

BCC stands for blind carbon copy. Like CC, it sends a copy of your email to someone else. The difference is that BCC addresses are hidden: the people in To and CC can’t see who was BCC’d, and BCC recipients can’t see each other.

Field	Who gets the email	Who can see the address
To	Main recipients	Everyone on the email
CC	People copied for their information	Everyone on the email
BCC	People copied privately	Only you

How to BCC From AOL Mail

1. Sign in to AOL Mail at mail.aol.com. If you need help, see how to sign in to AOL Mail.
2. From the inbox, click Compose.
3. Click the BCC link at the right side of the To field.
4. Type the address you want to blind copy in the BCC field.
5. Add your main recipient in To, then type a subject and your message.
6. Click Send.

Result: The BCC recipient gets the email, but their address doesn’t appear for anyone else.

How to Email a Group Without Sharing Everyone’s Address

BCC is useful when you send one message to many people who don’t know each other, like a club or neighborhood group.

1. Click Compose.
2. Type your own address in To.
3. Click BCC and add everyone else’s addresses there.
4. Write your message and click Send.

Result: Each person sees only your address. Replies come back only to you instead of going to the whole group.

Save time with an AOL contact list

If you email the same group often, AOL lets you create a distribution list. Per AOL’s distribution list help page: click the Contacts icon, click the Lists tab, click + Create list, name the list, add your contacts, and click Save. AOL says you can then send to the group by typing the list’s name in the To field.

BCC in AOL Desktop Gold

AOL Desktop Gold is a separate program from AOL Mail on the web. AOL has its own help page for adding Cc and Bcc recipients in AOL Desktop Gold, so follow that if you use the desktop software.

Tips for Using BCC

• Double-check which field you’re typing in before you send. A list of addresses pasted into To or CC is visible to everyone.
• If a BCC recipient clicks Reply All, their reply can go to everyone in To and CC, revealing that they were copied.
• To change how your sent messages look, AOL lets you set a signature and default font under Options > Mail Settings > Compose.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can BCC recipients see each other?

No. BCC addresses are hidden from all other recipients, including other BCC recipients.

Does the BCC recipient know they were BCC’d?

They’ll see that their address isn’t in the To or CC fields, which usually means they were BCC’d.

Can I hide the reading pane while I work through replies?

Yes. See how to hide the reading pane in AOL Mail.

If you need to check where a message came from, here’s how to view the full headers of an AOL email. To protect yourself from risky messages, see the current options for disabling links from unknown senders in AOL Mail.