How to Automatically CC or BCC Yourself in Outlook and Gmail

Quick Tips

• Automatically CC/BCC in Outlook: Use Outlook’s Rules feature to automatically CC or BCC yourself on all sent emails. Navigate to File > Manage Rules & Alerts > New Rule, and set up the auto CC/BCC criteria.
• Automatically CC/BCC in Gmail: Use Auto BCC for Gmail browser extension to add rules and set up CC or BCC for your emails.

How to Automatically CC or BCC Yourself in Outlook

Step 1: Open Outlook and click on the three-dot menu.

Step 2: Now, go to Rules and select Manage Rules and Alerts in the drop-down menu.

Step 3: Click on New Rule.

Step 4: Click the Apply rule on messages I send and click Next.

Step 5: Check the box next to through the specified account in Step 1, and click on the specified in Step 2.

Step 6: Choose your email account and select OK.

Step 7: Click on Next.

Step 8: In Step 1, check the box next to Cc the message to people or public group and click people or public group in Step 2.

Note: To BCC an email, select ‘Move a copy to the specified folder’ in Step 1.

Step 9: Now, add your Email ID and click OK.

Step 10: Select the exception if you want to exclude this rule for specific emails and click on Next.

Step 11: Enter your Email ID, select Turn on this rule in Step 2, and click Finish.

Note: To undo CC or BCC automation in Outlook, go to Rules > Manage Rules & Alerts > Under Rule, select the rule you created to automate CC and BCC > Click Delete. That’s it. You will be back to normal.

Now, every time you send an email in Outlook, you’ll automatically receive a copy of it. This can be handy if you want to keep track of all the correspondence you send out. However, if you don’t want to CC or BCC yourself in every email, you can simply auto-forward emails in Outlook.

How to Automatically CC or BCC Yourself in Gmail

Gmail doesn’t natively support auto-CC or BCC emails. So, we will use a free browser extension called Auto BCC & Auto CC extension for Chrome.

Step 1: Go to Auto BCC for Gmail and click Add to Chrome to download the Chrome extension.

Step 2: Click on Add extension to add this extension on Chrome.

Step 3: Now, open Gmail on Chrome and click the Compose button.

Step 4: Click the envelope icon right next to the send button.

Step 5: Click on Add New Rule.

Step 6: Under When emails are sent from, you should see your email already filled in. In the drop-down menu beneath it, select to anyone.

Step 7: Select BCC or CC (whatever you prefer) in the drop-down.

Step 8: Now, enter your email address.

Step 9: Click Save Rule. 

That’s it. You have enabled auto CC or BCC yourself in Gmail. Finally, click on Close and compose your email as usual.

To turn off auto CC or BCC, go to the Google Account Permission page > CloudHQ > Remove Access. This will remove account access. Once removed, go to Manage Extension on Chrome and remove the Auto BCC for Gmail extension.