E-mailing to a list of recipients

[Dave]

I want to e-mail to a large list of recipients (up to
500) but I only want each recipient to see their e-mail
address, not the others. I posted this before and
someone suggested I send it as a "BCC" or that I use mail
merge in Word. I don't know what a BCC is or how to do
that. I have used mail merge in Word to download data
(for example names) from a spreadsheet, but I'm not
familiar with how to use this for this application.

thanks in advance

 

[wes]

I've had some luck with this the bcc should come up when
you type in the To: the list in the BCC field. I've had
some trouble with sending over a 100 names even with a
cable modem and found it best to break the groups up to
no more than 100 in each one. I send out a weekly email
newletter to a base which is about 200 and broke it into
two groups and BCC.

Good Luck

 

[Brian Tillman]

I want to e-mail to a large list of recipients (up to
500) but I only want each recipient to see their e-mail
address, not the others. I posted this before and
someone suggested I send it as a "BCC" or that I use mail
merge in Word. I don't know what a BCC is or how to do
that.

"Bcc" means "blind courtesy copy" or "blind carbon copy" (but who knows what
carbon paper is any more?). Click the "To" button as you'd do to send mail
and at the bottom of the box you'll see "Bcc". Put your recipients there.
Alternatively you can click View>Bcc Field on the compose window menu bar to
display the Bcc field. Then click the Bcc button and add your recipients.

Watch out, though, many ISPs limit the number of recipients in a single
message. That's what mailmerge curcumvents. It sends each recipient a
separate copy of the message. You'll find the Mail Merge Wizard on the
Tools menu of Word. Search Help in Word for "form letter". You can also
display the Mail Merge Toolbar with View>Toolbars>Mail Merge.