How to get "undisclosed recipient"

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I'm using Outlook 2003 on XP and have never been able to work out how to
make a mail arrive at other end with "undisclosed recipient" in the "TO"
box?

I send many test mails but can never work this out, even with ONLY addresses
in BCC field test still arrives at my end with my address in "TO" box.

Sure there is a simple answer?

Thanks
 
Yes, this is not done in Outlook but on the mailserver :-)

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Crazy man said:
I'm using Outlook 2003 on XP and have never been able to work out how to
make a mail arrive at other end with "undisclosed recipient" in the "TO"
box?

I send many test mails but can never work this out, even with ONLY
addresses in BCC field test still arrives at my end with my address in
"TO" box.

Sure there is a simple answer?

Thanks
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Try this: Send a message to yourself, as a test, using only the BCC: for the
person(s) you are sending to. I suspect you do not want the people you are
mailing to get each other's address. I have tried this in Outlook and it
says who the message is from but not the others in the list. I have two
addresses so able to try this.
 
Crazy man said:
I'm using Outlook 2003 on XP and have never been able to work out how to
make a mail arrive at other end with "undisclosed recipient" in the "TO"
box?

I send many test mails but can never work this out, even with ONLY addresses
in BCC field test still arrives at my end with my address in "TO" box.

Sure there is a simple answer?

Thanks


If it is addressed to you, your name will be in the "to" box. Are there any other names there? If not, each has received the email with only their name in the box. All others are covered with the undisclosed tag.
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Creaet a contact named "undisclosed recipient" and give it your email
address. Edit the display name to only include that name and not the email
address. .

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After furious head scratching, Crazy man asked:

| I'm using Outlook 2003 on XP and have never been able to work out how
| to make a mail arrive at other end with "undisclosed recipient" in
| the "TO" box?
|
| I send many test mails but can never work this out, even with ONLY
| addresses in BCC field test still arrives at my end with my address
| in "TO" box.
|
| Sure there is a simple answer?
|
| Thanks
 
Crazy man said:
I'm using Outlook 2003 on XP and have never been able to work out how
to make a mail arrive at other end with "undisclosed recipient" in
the "TO" box?

I send many test mails but can never work this out, even with ONLY
addresses in BCC field test still arrives at my end with my address
in "TO" box.
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Try this work-around. Create a Contact for yourself, called "Undisclosed
Recipients" and make it's address your own, The, when you compose the
message, put that contact in your To field and the remaining addresses in
the Bcc field.
 
George Walker said:
If it is addressed to you, your name will be in the "to" box. Are
there any other names there? If not, each has received the email
with only their name in the box. All others are covered with the
undisclosed tag.
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Not necessarily. Either the the mail server or the recipients' mail client
will determine the content of the To field when receiving by Bcc. I've
tested several mail clients with the same message. The contents of the To
field was different for each client.
 
There is a way in Outlook Express to do this using the Bcc box. But what the receiver sees is "Undisclosed-Recipient" in their To: box.

Select your new mail message, select View and then All Headers and the Bcc box will show up. Put the email addresses in the Bcc box and send the message out that way. The receivers of the emails will not see anyone else's email addresses and will see "Undisclosed-Recipient" instead. When I get emails addressed this way, makes me think of spamming so you might think twice about doing it.

You can test it out by sending yourself an email this way and you'll see what your subscribers will see.



Hope this helps.

Regards,
jeeva
 
jivendra kumar via OfficeKB.com said:
There is a way in Outlook Express to do this using the Bcc box. But
what the receiver sees is "Undisclosed-Recipient" in their To: box.
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What is seen in the recipient's To field is entirely dependent on the
recipient's client.
 
How to make an Undisclosed Recipient list...

I am using MS Office 2007 and I am sure it is the same or pretty much so in other versions of Outlook because the result of my search from 2007 is giving me the solution for 03 (see below). I got this information from my 2007 Outlook help option which directed me to link below that I am in part sharing with you (I am not posting the whole page... Just follow the link here to read the entire thing - http://email.about.com/od/outlooktips/qt/et_undisclosed.htm

"Undisclosed" Is the Kind of Word That Can Get You Into Trouble



In emails, disclosing can get you into trouble, too. If you forward a message to a number of friends (some of whom are unknown to each other) by placing all the recipients in the Cc: field, you effectively share private email addresses with strangers. A long Cc: list does not look good either.

Fortunately, we have the Bcc: field in Outlook — and we have "Undisclosed recipients". Send an Email to Undisclosed Recipients in Outlook



First, we'll create a Contact just for addressing our "Undisclosed recipients" to ease the pain of repetitive typing and avoid errors. (You can rely on Outlook's auto-complete feature instead if you prefer.)
  • Click the down arrow of the New button.
  • Select Contact.
  • Type "Undisclosed recipients" under Full Name....
  • Type your email address under E-mail....
  • Click Save and Close.
    • If you already have an existing address book entry bearing your email address, make sure Add this as a new contact anyway is checked in the Duplicate Contact Detected dialog and click OK.

Now, to send an email to multiple but hidden recipients with "Undisclosed recipients" in the To: field:
  • Start with a new email message in Outlook.
  • Click the To... button.
  • Highlight Undisclosed recipients.
  • Click To ->.
  • Highlight all people in your address book to whom you want to send the message.
  • Click Bcc ->.
  • Click OK.
  • Add any additional recipients' email addresses to the Bcc: field.
    • Separate addresses with semicolons.
  • Compose your message and eventually click Send.
Hope the above helps.


Crazy man said:
I'm using Outlook 2003 on XP and have never been able to work out how to
make a mail arrive at other end with "undisclosed recipient" in the "TO"
box?

I send many test mails but can never work this out, even with ONLY addresses
in BCC field test still arrives at my end with my address in "TO" box.

Sure there is a simple answer?

Thanks
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How do you get this to work under Windows 7? It works fine under XP, but I recently got a new laptop with 7 on it, and the To field is blank (does not contain "Undisclosed-recipients") and the message has all of the routing information, making it totally unreadable. I've had to resort to doing my e-mails under the virtual XP machine that you can define under 7 Professional.

Thanks for any help you can give me.
 
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