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Sending group emails

how to send emails without everybody seeing other adresses

         

pfrpwr

3:04 am on Dec 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

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How can I send out group emails without everybody seeing the email addresses of the other recipients?

amoore

3:26 am on Dec 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

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You have at least two ways to do that.

One is to have your mail server expand the addresses. You can do that by setting up a mailing list, or an alias with your mailserver and sending to that. You can use something like mailman from list.org to manage it, allowing your users to subscribe and unsubscribe as they want. You could also keep them from making use of those features. The mail you send out will have the address of the mailing list in the "To: " header. I like this method since it allows people to unsubscribe themselves.

Another way is to have your mail client send an individual email to each user. You can do this with a mailer like you usually use to read your mail, but the more common method is to use a script to iterate through a list of addresses and send an individual mail to each person. The "To: " line on each mail will have the recipient's address in it.

There are other methods, like sticking everyone in the "Bcc: " line, but they're not as common or straightforward, I think.

Good luck, and don't spam!

-Andy

g1smd

12:01 am on Dec 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Use the Bcc field to specify all of the recipients.

Since it cannot be blank, use the main To field with a dummy address, or probably better to make it the same as the return address so that you get a copy back.

hanuman

8:27 am on Dec 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Also, chung your Recipient list to smaller groups. Sending one email to one big group might be stopped by certain spam filters. If you want it to reach your audience. split it.