Sending an Email to Multiple people with out them seeing each others adresses

[Zip]

How do i do this?

Ive only ever sent emails to 1 person at a time.

Now i want to send an email to lots of people at once but i cant have them see each others email addresses and need to keep them private from each other.

How do i go about this?

Is it something to do wioth the Bcc or Cc thing?


Thanks

/emailing noob

 

[Haircut]

BCC them all, will do the trick

 

[FakeSnake]

BC - Blind Copy

 

[Septh]

Use bcc for this, cc stands for carbon copy, bcc is blind carbon copy

 

[Zip]

Thanks all

Do i just put a space or a commer between the addresses to separate them?

 

[Lead_Head]

In the 'to' field put your email address and in the 'bcc' field put the recipients email address.

bcc stands for Blind Carbon Copy if I remember rightly.

This way everyone will see your email address, you'll receive a copy but the recipients in the bcc field will not see each others email addresses.

 

[ScarySquirrel]

To save me starting a new thread, I don't understand people who say "Contact me via CC mail"

To me that doesn't make sense, why would you email them, and then also CC them in on it? I know it means carbon copy.

It has always bugged me. Am I missing something or are these people just idiots? Why not just say "contact me by email?"
You wouldn't say "Contact me via BCC mail?" either!!

Thanks all

Do i just put a space or a commer between the addresses to separate them?

Use a Comma.

 

[Rotty]

To save me starting a new thread, I don't understand people who say "Contact me via CC mail"

To me that doesn't make sense, why would you email them, and then also CC them in on it? I know it means carbon copy.

It has always bugged me. Am I missing something or are these people just idiots? Why not just say "contact me by email?"
You wouldn't say "Contact me via BCC mail?" either!!


Use a Comma.

"cc mail" was on old ( lotus ? ) email system, it's probably people who grew up using that

 

[Gilly]

Thanks all

Do i just put a space or a commer between the addresses to separate them?

Neither, use semicolons. In case you don't know what one is ---> ;

In the 'to' field put your email address and in the 'bcc' field put the recipients email address.

bcc stands for Blind Carbon Copy if I remember rightly.

This way everyone will see your email address, you'll receive a copy but the recipients in the bcc field will not see each others email addresses.

Why bother putting his address on the To field? That just means he's sending it to himself too!

 

[FakeSnake]

To save me starting a new thread, I don't understand people who say "Contact me via CC mail"

To me that doesn't make sense, why would you email them, and then also CC them in on it? I know it means carbon copy.

It has always bugged me. Am I missing something or are these people just idiots? Why not just say "contact me by email?"
You wouldn't say "Contact me via BCC mail?" either!!

If I recall CCMail was/is a lotus product. some people will use the name CCmail instead of Email. Just like in my organisation we use Groupwise, so people are often heard saying 'send me a Groupwise message'


edit: Rotty Beat me, but I explained it better

 

[Rotty]

edit: Rotty Beat me, but I explained it better

but don't forget I can go back and edit my post without anyone being able to see that I have done it

 

[Gilly]

but don't forget I can go back and edit my post without anyone being able to see that I have done it

Now thats not quite true is it?

 

[Rotty]

Now thats not quite true is it?

well nearly

 

[Jono]

Now thats not quite true is it?

But to the untrained eye.
I would know, Rotty's such a rogue.

 

[ScarySquirrel]

Ah ok, thanks for explaining that

 

[FakeSnake]

 

[Shackley]

In the 'to' field put your email address and in the 'bcc' field put the recipients email address.
. . .
This way everyone will see your email address, you'll receive a copy but the recipients in the bcc field will not see each others email addresses.

As mentioned, don't forget to put something (your address is a good idea) in the "To:" field, many SPAM filters will bin emails without a named recipient.

You may also find that some SPAM filters will bin emails with a large number of BCC: addresses.

 

[Origin]

Why bother putting his address on the To field? That just means he's sending it to himself too!

Some spam systems will stop the mail if there is no address in the "To" field. I know ours does. So I always send it to myself and bcc everyone else if I have to do this.

EDIT: Too Slow

 

[Gilly]

That makes no sense. All a spammer has to do is generate a random text string with an @ sign.