Count the Bcc Recipients of an Email

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Demonstrates the read-only Chilkat Email.NumBcc property, which is the number of blind carbon-copy (Bcc) recipients. Bcc recipient indexes are zero-based and can be inspected with GetBcc, GetBccAddr, and GetBccName. This example adds two Bcc recipients and prints the count.

Background: Email has three recipient lists: To (primary), Cc (carbon copy), and Bcc (blind carbon copy). The key difference is visibility: To and Cc addresses appear in the delivered message's headers for everyone to see, but Bcc recipients are hidden — the Bcc header is stripped before delivery so no recipient can tell who else was blind-copied.

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#include <C_CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkEmail email;

    //  Demonstrates the read-only Email.NumBcc property, which is the number of
    //  blind carbon-copy (Bcc) recipients.  Bcc indexes are zero-based.

    email = CkEmail_Create();

    CkEmail_AddBcc(email,"Joe","joe@example.com");
    CkEmail_AddBcc(email,"Jane","jane@example.com");

    printf("NumBcc = %d\n",CkEmail_getNumBcc(email));


    CkEmail_Dispose(email);

    }