Emailing to groups

[Dexie]

Just trying to understand the mechanics of emailing a group of people (who have agreed to receive the emails).

In Outlook Express, is there someway of emailing a group of people, but *without* them seeing each others email address's?

And also for them to see their own email address in the "to" part? Seeing non-disclosed recipient doesn't to look professional to me.

Any help appreciated.

Dexie.

[fish_eye]

You can try "bcc" (blind carbon copy) but this is sometimes filtered out by spam filters (but then all sorts of things are filtered out these days through no fault of your own).

How many emails are you talking about? If it's more than 20 or so you would be best to look at:
1) sending in batches; and
2) sending from your web site's servers.

Also, depending on where you are located you may need to consider legislation. In Australia (for example) you need to provide / show an "opt out / unsubscribe" process.

[Dexie]

Manu thanks for the info.

All of them have agreed to the emails and there's about 300 of them.

How do you send from the websites servers please?

Any help appreciated.

Dexie

[fish_eye]

How do you send from the websites servers please?

Firstly you need to be able to execute code on the server (perl or php etc) and then you need to either beg, borrow or steal the code (and probably customise it).

With php there are some very simple programs that are very effective but it's a good idea to:
1) install;
2) test;
3) run;
4) delete the code (to avoid abuse of your code / site).

There are (no doubt) some excellent perl equivalents but I'm not the person to ask about them.

PS. With 300 emails you may be best to simply send in batches of 30 and see what happens.

[Dexie]

Many thanks for that, I'll look into this some more.

(The first word above should have been many - but strangely enough, I couldn't see an edit option?)

[fish_eye]

I couldn't see an edit option

Mere mortals like us can only edit our posts for a short-ish time after posting (about 30-60 mins I think).