How to prevent sending attachments to CC and BCC recipients when composing email in Outlook?

Author Xiaoyang Last modified 2024-08-20

As we all known, all recipients in “To”, “CC” or “BCC” fields, will get the attachments when sending emails with attachments. However, some users want to send the attachments to the “To” recipients only, with the “CC” and “BCC” recipients just getting the message without the attachments. How could you solve this job in Outlook?

Prevent sending attachments to CC and BCC recipients when composing email with VBA code

Prevent sending attachments to CC and BCC recipients when composing email with VBA code

In fact, Outlook does not offer an option for dealing with this task, but, the following VBA code can do you a favor, please do as this:

1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, double click ThisOutlookSession from the Project1(VbaProject.OTM) pane to open the mode, and then copy and paste the following code into the blank module.

VBA code: Prevent sending attachments to CC and BCC recipients:

Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
Dim xMailItem As Outlook.MailItem
Dim xNewMail As Outlook.MailItem
If Item.Class <> olMail Then Exit Sub
Set xMailItem = Item
Set xNewMail = Outlook.Application.CreateItem(olMailItem)
With xNewMail
    .CC = xMailItem.CC
    .BCC = xMailItem.BCC
    .Subject = xMailItem.Subject
    .HTMLBody = xMailItem.HTMLBody
    .Send
End With
xMailItem.CC = ""
xMailItem.BCC = ""
End Sub

3. Then save and close the code window.

4. From now on, when sending an email with attachments, only the recipients in To field can receive the attachments, and the recipients in CC and BCC can only get the message without attachments.