MailMessage.Bcc Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Net.Mail

Assemblies:

netstandard.dll, System.Net.Mail.dll

Source:

MailMessage.cs

Gets the address collection that contains the blind carbon copy (BCC) recipients for this email message.

C#

public System.Net.Mail.MailAddressCollection Bcc { get; }

Property Value

MailAddressCollection

A writable MailAddressCollection object.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates adding an address to the Bcc address collection.

C#

public static void CreateBccTestMessage(string server)
{
    MailAddress from = new MailAddress("ben@contoso.com", "Ben Miller");
    MailAddress to = new MailAddress("jane@contoso.com", "Jane Clayton");
    MailMessage message = new MailMessage(from, to);
    message.Subject = "Using the SmtpClient class.";
    message.Body = @"Using this feature, you can send an email message from an application very easily.";
    MailAddress bcc = new MailAddress("manager1@contoso.com");
    message.Bcc.Add(bcc);
    SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(server);
    client.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;
    Console.WriteLine("Sending an email message to {0} and {1}.",
        to.DisplayName, message.Bcc.ToString());

    try
    {
        client.Send(message);
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Exception caught in CreateBccTestMessage(): {0}",
            ex.ToString());
    }
}

Remarks

To add a BCC recipient to an email message, create a MailAddress for the recipient's address, and then add that object to the collection returned by the Bcc property.

When recipients view an email message, the Bcc addresses are usually not displayed.

Applies to