How do I email a broadcast without disclosing recipients details .

[Guest]

If I want to send an email to many recipients how can I do this without all
their individual email details going through to each recipient?

 

[Douglas J Steele]

You'd be better off asking this in a newsgroup related to whatever e-mail
client you're using (this newsgroup is for questions about Access, the
database product that's part of Office Professional), but you can usually
achieve what you want by specifying their e-mail addresses as bcc.

 

[Guest]

I have an Access database where I send out a broadcast email about once a
week to approximately 150 people. Like you I wanted to keep the email
addresses away from the other recipients.

1. An easy way: Put all the email addresses in the BCC line of the email.
Advantages: One email for everyone and they can't see each other's addresses.

Disadvantages: Many spam blocking tools filter out emails with multiple
adressees in the BCC (or even To and CC fields).

2. Send an individual email to each users.
Advantages: Keeps the addresses secret from other recipients.
Passes through most spam filters.

Disadvanteges: Takes time to pump out 150 emails.

My ISP (Charter) won't let me send out more than 50 emails an hour without a
commercial account. Therefore I have the database only send out about 30-40
emails an hour. It takes about 5 hours to send out all the emails.

Outlook 2003 will ask if you really want to send out the email for each of
the 150 emails! There are some registry settings, program hacks, and other
tricks to get around this; however, I've found a little program called
ClickYes to do the job best.

If interested in a copy of my little emailing database, email me at
(e-mail address removed).

 

[Guest]

I have had good success with WorldMerge (www.coloradosoft.com), an
inexpensive email blaster that pulls information easily from Access tables
and queries. Each email appears to be "personalized."

Bruce