Bcc not shown in sent mail

Hi,
I've read some other topics on this issue, and it is a shame the discussion are closed and I must open a new one. However, here is the problem.
I often send mail to multiple receiver, and I prefer not to disclose the address of long lists or competitor suppliers. I send my mails using the Bcc field for the addresses.
Unfortunately, Mail does not show anything in the To field when the message is in the Sent (or any other) mailbox.
Someone says the reason is because this is a 'blind' mail. But the Bcc should be blind to the receivers, not to the sender (who - if in good mental shape - should know who is writing to).
Are there workarounds, scripts, extensions, fixing this beahvoir, that at the moment makes Mail a bit useless to me (how can I archive mails if I cannot see who I sent them to?)
Cheers, Paolo

BCC should show up as a header line in the message in your sent folder, whether your smtp gets upset with blank "To" fields or not. The copy of the message in the sent folder, according to the mail headers in raw messages in my sent folder, have no indication of having left my machine, i.e., no indication of having been touched by a smtp server anywhere (no "Received-From" header lines). Is any BCC data visible when you view raw message source (menubar View > Message > Raw Source)?
Since "BCC" is not "To", it is not going to display in the "To" column in the sent mail viewer pane and BCC is not a choice for viewablle columns in the viewer pane. You will probably have to do something like make the "To" field read Suppliers-1 <[email protected]> and Suppliers-2 <[email protected]>.
Or maybe you can make some smart mailboxes and use the "Filter Sent Messages" apple script that is part of the collection of the Mail Scripts collection by Andreas Amann. I have never used Mail Scripts so can't speak to its efficacy for various tasks, but if it is just identifying a rule (or set of rules), then in Mail Prefs Rules, I would think that you could create some rules based on the BCC field of messages in your sent folder. In Mail Prefs' Rules, select "edit header list" in the leftmost drop down menu and add Bcc as a field, then create the action to sort on the contents of the Bcc field and move complying messages to the applicable smart folder.

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