stop mailing with bcc

[bharatsingh]

hi ,

can we stop any OU ,Group Or User to stop using BCC , if there is no option for disable BCC is there any thing by which admin can reject the mail which contain bcc

[cryptochrome · Accepted solution]

I am not sure this will work, but you could try using Gmail compliance settings in the admin console. You can build advanced expressions there that match on different metadata and header data and then take action (like rejecting an email). Something like this:

[bharatsingh]

thanks buddy , i will try this. 

[bharatsingh]

hi buddy , It Works ..😎

only slight change in match type use contain text .

Thanks my friend it solved ......

[cryptochrome]

Excellent 🙂

[TheDubhgan]

Hi Cryptochrome, 

I have followed all the suggestions listed in this thread, but still can bcc my personal gmail from my company email. I have attached screenshots of what my settings are at the moment. I also tried with 'bcc:" vs. "Bcc:" but no luck. 

The one difference is that I am making this compliance for only a sub organizational unit of a larger organizational unit, but this should not matter? I think. 

Any suggestions? 

 

 

[bill_pier3]

The first thing to ask when the impulse to disallow a feature or service arises, is "why?".  

The "BCC" feature of email is part of the Internet Message RFC -- it's standard feature of modern email.  So don't mess with it.

Instead, if there's a problem created by the inappropriate use of BCC in emails, then educate the user community about the intention and appropriate use of email features.  

[bharatsingh]

thanks bill for your response , In our organization some employee keep bcc there personal mail to keep important mail in there personal inbox which is  wrong , we also guided users to not do such action but management want this to not happen in future from server side    

[bill_pier3]

Oh gosh, I do understand.  When it's been a concern for me in the past, I made sure that employees knew well of the company policies regarding proprietary information and data.  Essentially, company info/business belongs in company accounts, only.

That said, it does happen, especially when people are looking to "protect" themselves. But generally copying company/business/organization information, including emails, to a personal account is fraught with liability risk, both for the organization and the employee responsible. And it should be communicated as such.