Hiding email recipient names?

purplepatch

I want to send the same email message to several people. Is it possible to do one email and hide the other recipient names so that each recipient thinks that they are the only one?

Any help much appreciated.

LULUBELLE_2

You can send it to one person and send 'blind copies' to the others, assuming you're using Outlook or Outlook Express. Use the 'BCC' box to list the other recipients.

That way, the only person that all will know it went to is the one in the 'public' box.

purplepatch

LULUBELLE wrote:

You can send it to one person and send 'blind copies' to the others, assuming you're using Outlook or Outlook Express. Use the 'BCC' box to list the other recipients.

That way, the only person that all will know it went to is the one in the 'public' box.

Thanks.

So, if I'm understanding correctly, there's no way that each recipient can only see their own name in the "to" box?

LULUBELLE_2

Not that I know - but there are those who say that I don't know much

purplepatch

LULUBELLE wrote:

Not that I know - but there are those who say that I don't know much

I'm sure that isn't true.

It's an email to friends with some family news and it seems a bit impersonal to do one email with lots of names. But I'm feeling a bit lazy - the thought of having to do lots of individual emails doesn't appeal much

starlite_2

why not just copy and paste the email text and send it out individually?

tigermatt

Use the "BCC" field of your email program to put in all of the email addresses you are sending to. Then fill in the "To" field with your own email address. That way, the recipients of the message will only be able to see that you sent it to yourself; they will have no way of telling who the other recipients were.

If you are using Outlook, you don't actually have to fill in the To field, you simply fill in the BCC field and then when each recipients receives the message only their email address appears in "to".

Most other email programs and webmail will insist that you use something in To, so just put your own email address in if it needs it, and put the rest in BCC.

Hope this helps

mikemoate

If you don't put at least one name in the 'to' field, use your own as someone has suggested, some spam filters will bounce your mail.

tigermatt

mikemoate wrote:

If you don't put at least one name in the 'to' field, use your own as someone has suggested, some spam filters will bounce your mail.

So that's why some of my mail was bounced back the other day. :rolleyes: