Email list

J

JDR

How do I send an email to a list of addresses but each recipient would only
see the message addressed to their name?

i.e. if I send to John Doe and Jane Doe, when Jane receives the message it
would only show her name as the recipient.

Thanks

Jeff...
 
C

Chuck Davis

JDR said:
How do I send an email to a list of addresses but each recipient would
only see the message addressed to their name?

i.e. if I send to John Doe and Jane Doe, when Jane receives the message it
would only show her name as the recipient.

Thanks

Jeff...
It's called Bcc,
If MS Word is your e-mail editor, click the arrow to the right of the
Options button, and then click Bcc.
If MS Outlook is your e-mail editor, on the View menu, click Bcc Field.
 
J

JDR

I've tried Bcc!

I want only the recipients name to show but with Bcc no recipient names
display.
Jeff...
 
V

Vanguard

JDR said:
I've tried Bcc!

I want only the recipients name to show but with Bcc no recipient names
display.


Then you need something ELSE than Outlook. Outlook is a personal e-mail
client, not a bulk mail server. You could try using Word's MailMerge;
otherwise, start hunting around for bulk mail programs.
 
K

KiwiBrian

Oh dear!!!! I have Outlook 2003 and was intending to do exactly that. Can
you/anyone confirm that your description applies to even that version?
If so, do you have a recommendation for a suitable third party application
which will handle HTML emails as per the OP description?
Many thanks
Brian Tozer
 
V

Vanguard

KiwiBrian said:
Oh dear!!!! I have Outlook 2003 and was intending to do exactly that. Can
you/anyone confirm that your description applies to even that version?
If so, do you have a recommendation for a suitable third party application
which will handle HTML emails as per the OP description?
Many thanks
Brian Tozer


Well, as mentioned in my prior post, do you have Word or not? If you have
word then try its Mailmerge. Remember that you are using Mailmerge to
manage a list of recipients and that EACH recipient gets a separate copy of
your mail, so for N recipients of your mailing list there will be N separate
copies of the same e-mail sent out through Outlook. The problem with that
is some ISP's block how many mail sessions you can have in a minute, like
only 10 mail sessions. They may also block how many messages you can send
in a minute. The receiving domain may auto-tag your mails as spam if you
send many multiple copies of the same message to their domain (i.e., they
see the same message flooding their mail server sent to different recipients
on their domain).

I don't bulk mail so I've had little need other than the occasional Google
search when someone asks about them, but you do the Google search yourself.
The only one that I remember doing any reading on was something called
Mailcast, as I recall, but I don't know if it even exists anymore.
 

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