Basic email question

Guest2 · 22 Sep 2011 at 08:09

I have never been asked this before but wonderd myself

Is it possible to send an email to say 5 people and have it so the people cant see who else it was sent to (the other 4 people) - So it just looks like it was sent to them only

Is this what make private is or something else? Not even sure its possible

(Using Outlook & Exchange 2010)

st00dent · 22 Sep 2011 at 08:14

Use BCC to add the addresses

Guest2 · 22 Sep 2011 at 08:15

st00dent said:
Use BCC to add the addresses

When they cant see it was sent to them. (people and nosy and will ask why their names are not in the to field and who else was included in the bcc)

SubFocus · 22 Sep 2011 at 08:15

The above is correct! You will find BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) under CC and anybody copied in via this field will not be visible to the original recipient or copied recipients.

Guest2 · 22 Sep 2011 at 08:18

Then the recipients cant see their own name in the To field

KaHn · 22 Sep 2011 at 08:51

Send 5 seperate emails you lazy git

KaHn

Saundie · 22 Sep 2011 at 08:56

KaHn said:
Send 5 seperate emails you lazy git

This is the only way to do it in Outlook, if you insist upon having them in the To field.

jonislost · 22 Sep 2011 at 08:59

Or just say you accidently BCC'd them

Pestilence · 22 Sep 2011 at 09:44

BCC them all and tell them to shut the **** up.

Participant · 22 Sep 2011 at 09:46

Guest2 said:
(people and nosy and will ask why their names are not in the to field and who else was included in the bcc)

At which point you ignore them.

Clav · 22 Sep 2011 at 09:51

To really confuse them send it to yourself and BCC them in

paddy · 22 Sep 2011 at 10:16

Clav said:
To really confuse them send it to yourself and BCC them in

Take it 1 step further, BCC their real address, then into the TO field put <something inappropriate>@<domain>

I've wound some mates up with that, especially if the TO field is a something silly on their work domain

Guest2 · 22 Sep 2011 at 14:14

KaHn said:
Send 5 seperate emails you lazy git

KaHn

Someone did ask before actually, it wasnt for 5 emails, it was sending to 200

In that case I advised just using BCC which they were ok with.

Ignoring them isnt really an option - Working for a large corporate law firm in IT

Pudney · 22 Sep 2011 at 14:20

Guest2 said:
Someone did ask before actually, it wasnt for 5 emails, it was sending to 200

In that case I advised just using BCC which they were ok with.

Ignoring them isnt really an option - Working for a large corporate law firm in IT

Then say they're not allowed to know, privacy and all that shizzle.