Smart Mailboxes Recognizing BCC

Hello All,
I hope that somebody can help us.
We are trying to set up some smart mailboxes for members of a particular group at school. For each person we are wanting to see all the mail that has been sent to them and received from them.
Mails to the entire group are sent as BCC due to policy, and we would like the recipients of those mails to also be recognized by the smart mailbox rule and for a copy of that mail to be thus included in the smart mailbox for them.
It seems that the 'Any recipient' field and even the 'entire message' field do not recognize the contents of the BCC line.
Is this the case? and if so is there a way around this?
best regards
G and P

I can see who I BCC'ed in my mail messages that I have sent. So, while it may be true that BCC is gone from incoming email, it is there for sent email.
I found this thread because I am looking to make a smart mailbox on mail I've sent based on the BCC field.

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