Hi Andy,
I know that Gmail has been very slow lately. There have been reports of it from Google. Here is an article I found about it. Are you using Gmail? If so, can you test with a different email provider? There are no BCC limitations on the basic CRM, it should work the same as Method CRM Pro.
Jason
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