How to use bcc withought putting my email in to line

[Guest]

Everytime I send something in BCC and leave the "to" line blank, it puts my
email address on there. I dont want it to do that. I would rather it say
undisclosed-recipients or family and friends. I created an address entry
that said undisclosed recipients and put my email...as i was told by another
user. So then I tried it, but then I eneded up sending the emails to me
also. I dont want that either. Is there any way to use the BCC without
having my email address on the to line or actually having to send it to
myself?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Everytime I send something in BCC and leave the "to" line blank, it
puts my email address on there.

I have never seen this and can't reproduce. What version of Outlook?

I dont want it to do that. I would
rather it say undisclosed-recipients or family and friends. I
created an address entry that said undisclosed recipients and put my
email...as i was told by another user.

That's the only way you'll be able to control what's in the To field.

So then I tried it, but then
I eneded up sending the emails to me also. I dont want that either.
Is there any way to use the BCC without having my email address on
the to line or actually having to send it to myself?

As I said, I have no trouble using Bcc and leaving the To field empty.

 

[Guest]

I am using outlook 2003 with windows XP. I produce it by actually including
another email address of mine in the BCC just to see what the message would
look like when I left the "to" blank.

 

[F. H. Muffman]

I have never seen this and can't reproduce. What version of Outlook?

Repro's fine in 2k7 against gmail and hotmail with the Outlook Connector.
Which surprised me =)

Another option (for the original poster) is to do a mail merge instead.

 

[Guest]

Can you instruct me in how to do the mail merge. I have been using Word as
my default email editor.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am using outlook 2003 with windows XP. I produce it by actually
including another email address of mine in the BCC just to see what
the message would look like when I left the "to" blank.

And when and where are you looking at the result contaiing your address in
the To field, before you send or after? If after, in what folder is the
message you're examining?

 

[Guest]

I am looking at the message After I send and then I look into my INBOX of my
other email address that I put in the bcc. When looking at it. I see From me
and to me (same email address). my my other email address that I put in the
BCC spot does not show up. By the way I am making sure to use a DIFFERENT
email address in the bbc. Different from the email addresss i am sending it
from.

 

[F. H. Muffman]

Can you instruct me in how to do the mail merge. I have been using Word
as
my default email editor.

Search the help for 'Mail Merge'. The steps there should be good.

 

[F. H. Muffman]

And when and where are you looking at the result contaiing your address in
the To field, before you send or after? If after, in what folder is the
message you're examining?

When I repro'd it, I did this:

I sent a BCC from Outlook through both a Gmail connection and an Outlook
Connector to a Hotmail account that I access over the web.

Both of those show my email address as the To: line in the web based hotmail
reader.

BUT... and this is the cool part.... sort of... if I send through an
Exchange server and only put in a BCC, it comes in as Undisclosed
Recipients.

So, it's definitely Outlook doing it, but it doesn't seem to do it on
Exchange connections.

And I bet if you sniffed the smtp conversation, you'll see the RFC2822
header with the To: as the sender address. I'm just wigged that it "works"
in Exchange. =)

 

[Brian Tillman]

When I repro'd it, I did this:

I sent a BCC from Outlook through both a Gmail connection and an
Outlook Connector to a Hotmail account that I access over the web.

Both of those show my email address as the To: line in the web based
hotmail reader.

BUT... and this is the cool part.... sort of... if I send through an
Exchange server and only put in a BCC, it comes in as Undisclosed
Recipients.

So, it's definitely Outlook doing it, but it doesn't seem to do it on
Exchange connections.

And I bet if you sniffed the smtp conversation, you'll see the RFC2822
header with the To: as the sender address. I'm just wigged that it
"works" in Exchange. =)

I do think it's the mail client doing it as well. I can send Bcc mail to
several accounts of mine and if I access them with different mail clients, I
see different things in the To field depending on the client and what's in
the headers. But I believe it is a presentational issue only and not worth
a lot of energy.

 

[Guest]

So it is definitely outlook. Is there a setting that I can change in it?

 

[F. H. Muffman]

So it is definitely outlook. Is there a setting that I can change in it?

None that I'm aware of. Either do the mail merge, live with it, or don't
use Outlook.