Automatic Bcc to a single mail account

Hi all,
I have been trying to find a solution to the above mentioned scenario. I require to keep one of my assistants in Bcc as I respond to mails, so so that she is aware of the kind of the communication flowing between us and the customers, as she is supposed to handle it herself once she is ready.
Now I have over 5 mail.app accounts and want to automatically Bcc her only in 2 accounts. Most of the Terminal solutions that I have checked, are applicable to all the accounts, and you don't have a choice of an account.
I'd appreciate any help wrt this.

Additional Note:
After playing around with some additional settings I discovered that the us.army.mil imap account ONLY causes the beachball if I am connected to the internet when I launch the Mail app. If I am not connected to the internet when Mail launches, there is no beachball, nor does the problem crop up when I connect to the internet after Mail has launched and the accounts do their initial sync.
This is getting stranger and stranger...

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I have a bunch of email addresses (as everyone else), and I want to enable "automatically BCC myself" only for a certain account.
Mail.app doesn't allow me to configure the option per email address, but it is just all or nothing. I also spent good amount of time on googling, but fail to find a good solution for this.
It would be really appreciated if anyone can post a solution, or a suggestion (e.g., looking into Apple Script in blah, blah area...).
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Mail > Preferences > Accounts. Choose the Account you want Bcc set too. Then, under the Composing setting, enable Automatically Bcc myself.
When you are composing an email. there is also a setting drop down adjacent to From: that allows you to dynamically allow the Bcc field.

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Thanks for the response!
Well, I looked in the location you mentioned (Users/yourname/Library/Mail/nameof_yourpop account) before posting my question, but if you look in that POP folder the only things there are the .mbox files for that account: Deleted Messages.mbox, Drafts.mbox, INBOX.mbox, Junk.mbox & Sent Messages.mbox. Inside each of those are the actual emails for those folders, which would restore all the emails (which I haven't lost), but there doesn't seem to be any files that carry the info/settings for the account.
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Once IMAP mail is downloaded to the drive, it's stored as plaintext files, right? For instance, under this path...
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Message was edited by: Auros

Auros wrote:
I really wish the OSX team would add a feature that would allow you to add a password for a folder, from the Get Info interface, and subsequently have the OS ask for the password any time it needed to read anything under that folder's path hierarchy. (Every file under that hierarchy would be encrypted, individually, using the password.) This would be preferable to the disk-image approach. Among other reasons, it would improve backups -- the files would still be dated individually. (Currently, for my encrypted disk image full of work files, every time any file changes -- almost every day! -- a new version of the entire disk image gets created on my Time Capsule.)
You can already do that. The process is a bit convoluted and not something most end users need to do. That is why Apple isn't going to promote it. Also, since this would be the only place your mail is stored encrypted, it isn't that great for security anyway. The people you send messages to and any e-mail servers between you and them all store your messages unencrypted. However, it would provide you with a little bit of enhanced physical security. So, here goes....
0) Quit Mail
1) Create yourself a read/write, encrypted disk image and store it somewhere on your machine.
2) It is important to make sure you store the password in your keychain. Your keychain itself is encrypted, so no harm there.
3) Open the encrypted disk image and copy your e-mail mailbox folder to it. For example, I just tested this using "/Users/jdaniel/Library/Mail/[email protected]".
4) Now, create an alias to that mailbox folder inside the encrypted disk image. Select the folder inside the disk image and hold down Option ⌘ to make an alias. Drag the alias to the desktop. You will have a little circular arrow in the corner of the icon to indicate an alias. It is important that this is an old-school Macintosh Alias file, not a UNIX symbolic link.
5) Take your old e-mail Mailbox folder and rename it, move it, or otherwise get it out of the way.
6) Move that alias you just created in your Library > Mail folder. It should have the same name as the old folder you just moved.
7) Double-click the alias to make sure it works. It should open the disk image and mount it without prompting you for a password.
8) Eject the disk image.
9) Launch Mail. With any luck, it should automatically mount the disk image when you launch it.
You will have to manually eject the disk image after quitting mail. There are some important caveats:
1) Time Machine will not be able to back up this disk image effectively. It will be like using Entourage.
2) There are no guarantees with this method. I fully expect it to corrupt that mailbox at some point. You have been warned.
If you wanted to get really fancy, you could do all of this with an autofs mount. Then it would automatically unmount the disk image too. Good luck with that.
So there you go. Does Apple's "Keep It Simple" strategy make more sense now
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PS: Did I mention backing up in there somewhere? Probably a really good idea.

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Just tried one thing and it worked for me.
Close Mail app.
go to ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData
and copy file Accounts.plist somewhere to keep the orriginal safe if something goes wrong.
then open Accounts.plist with text editor (do not use rich text editor, just plain text)
in this file look for
<dict>
<key>AccountName</key>
<string>The name you call your account</string>
The name you call your account should be the rel name of that account
then somewhere bellow you should see
<key>EmailAddresses</key>
<array>
<string>[email protected]</string>
</array>
add these lines (that appears green in this port) bellow </array> that belongs to john smith.
<key>EmailAliases</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>alias</key>
<string>[email protected]</string>
<key>name</key>
<string>Support</string>
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I run a mac air on a single user account but multiple people using it, which is ok for the situation. All have their accounts in the apple mail app. what is missing for me is a separate password to access the mail account. otherwise anyone can see anyones
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