How do you send a copy of an email to yourself?

Answer 1

There are 3 ways to send yourself a copy of an E-mail you are sending to someone else.

Send To line

First, you can just include your own email address in the "Send To" line, along with the person's E-mail address to whom you are writing.

CC line

Second, instead, you can type the person's E-mail address in the "Send To" line and put your own address in the CC line. CC means "carbon copy". The term "carbon copy" refers back to how copies of personal letters were originally done; a person inserted a piece of carbon paper between 2 pages, and wrote the letter. The pressure of the pencil or pen imprinted on the flat side of the carbon paper, forcing the other side to create an exact duplicate of what had been written, at the time it was written. The person(s) who receives the E-mail will see the addresses in the Send To and in the CC lines.

BCC line

Third, instead of using the "Send To" or the "CC" line for your own E-mail address, you can type the person's E-mail address in the "Send To" line and put your own address in the "BCC" line. "BCC" in E-mail stands for "Blind Carbon Copy" and it means that the person receiving the mail never sees any address that is in the "BCC" line. Using BCC is helpful if you do not want all the recipients to know who all you sent that E-mail to, or to secretively BCC another person when you want a 3rd party to know what you said. BCC is very, very helpful when sending to a list of more than 3 people. No one enjoys getting an E-mail that has 20 E-mail addresses listed at the top, showing all the names the E-mail was sent to including 'yours'. Long E-mail listings clog an E-mail, make it look untidy and immature, and can feel invasive to the receivers. Instead, use BCC to include everyone-- and put your own address in the Send To, the CC line, or the BCC line.

Forwarding

If you forget to include your own address on an E-mail you already sent, you can open your Sent Mail box, then open the Mail you already sent. Then, click Forward. Enter your own address in the Send To line, and click send.

Experiment with the ways described above. Type a message to yourself, like "Test" and try the different methods so you can see what each looks like when you receive them.