Ivan Alvarez wrote:
> This is a suggestion for future development of Outlook. One funcionality that
> will be really nice to have when you send an e-mail to several recipients is
> the possibility to choose which one of them should receive any attachment on
> the mail. So, i.e. if you're sending a comm to a customer whith some heavy
> size info attached regarding your products and you're copying any of your
> colleagues for their info most probably those dudes already have that files
> and don't make sense to overload their inbox and storage with the same info
> again. So if you have the ability to choose which recipient will receive
> them you'll be saving time, bandwith and storage among others. Thx!
>
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Not possible. Not a limitation in any e-mail client. It is a
limitation of the e-mail *protocol* that you are using to send your
e-mails.
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) works by your e-mail client
aggregating a list of recipients from its To, CC, and Bcc *fields*
within its user interface. Those are FIELDS in the e-mail client (which
the client then puts into the header section of the message, except the
Bcc field is not added as a header). Your e-mail client then issues a
RCPT-TO command to the mail server for each recipient. That is followed
by *one* DATA command that contains your message. Attachments don't
float out somewhere in the Internet ether separately of the e-mail.
Attachments are *in* the e-mail. That means the same message sent by
your e-mail client to the mail server using the DATA command is the same
message that gets sent to each recipient that had been specified in the
list of RCPT-TO commands.
The mail server gets told who are the recipients and then gets a single
copy of your message that it then sends to each recipient. So your
message gets sent to all recipients. If you want some recipients to get
a different e-mail (like having different attachments) then you have to
send them a separate e-mail. You'll have to compose the e-mail to send
to one set of recipients and then compose another and DIFFERENT e-mail
to send to a different set of recipients. You are trying to send
different e-mails. Remember that attachments in *in* the body of your
message so having a different set of attachments means you are sending a
different e-mail.
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