Automatic "Undisclosed Recipients" notation

[Mark Tangard]

Hi folks. A good half-hour of searching Google has turned up dozens of
replies on how to show "Undisclosed Recipients" in the recipient's "To"
field but none on how to get it to happen *automatically*. Countless
posts direct the questioner to *create* a new contact named "Undisclosed
Recipients" (while of course placing the real addressees in the BCC).

[Scratching head] This can't be right. If it were, I should think we'd
see countless minor *variations* on the phrase "Undisclosed Recipients,"
considering the typical emailer's spelling skills. But I never have.
There must be a way to make that phrase appear automatically. And it
must be something simple, because I routinely get mail thusly addressed
from people who couldn't likely spell both words correctly if their
lives depended on it....

One post claimed the phrase is automatically placed in the "To" field if
you leave it blank. But I've tried that several imes and it doesn't
happen; the recipient sees my name at 'From' and his own name (which was
placed only in the bcc) at 'To.' What's the secret??

Thanks in advance. Using WinXP with Outlook 2000 and 2002.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

There is no secret. Outlook doesn't do anything like that automatically.

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

Outlook Express does, I think...which to most people seems to mean that
Outlook must do it too ;-)

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There is no secret. Outlook doesn't do anything like that
automatically.

Hi folks. A good half-hour of searching Google has turned up dozens
of replies on how to show "Undisclosed Recipients" in the
recipient's "To" field but none on how to get it to happen
*automatically*. Countless posts direct the questioner to *create*
a new contact named "Undisclosed Recipients" (while of course
placing the real addressees in the BCC).

[Scratching head] This can't be right. If it were, I should think
we'd see countless minor *variations* on the phrase "Undisclosed
Recipients," considering the typical emailer's spelling skills. But
I never have. There must be a way to make that phrase appear
automatically. And it must be something simple, because I routinely
get mail thusly addressed from people who couldn't likely spell both
words correctly if their lives depended on it....

One post claimed the phrase is automatically placed in the "To"
field if you leave it blank. But I've tried that several imes and
it doesn't happen; the recipient sees my name at 'From' and his own
name (which was placed only in the bcc) at 'To.' What's the secret??

Thanks in advance. Using WinXP with Outlook 2000 and 2002.

 

[Mark Tangard]

Ah, thank you! That *is* in fact the secret....

MT