Name Only In To Box

[fjpor]

Is there any way to have outgoing emails show name only in the out box. Do
not wish to disclose full emails when sending mail to multiple recipients

New to Vista and have not been able to find answer to this question.

 

[Dave]

(standard reply)

Windows Mail will show both the contact name & the
contact email address. You can't change that.

If you send to multiple recipients, and don't want them to see each other's
email address, use the BCC: field. If you don't see the BCC field, in the
compose window, click on View - Show All Headers.

 

[fjpor]

Well, guess that means that I will have to switch to another mail service as
I don't like this.

Thanks..

 

[Dave]

Windows Mail is a program, not a service.
All email programs will let the recipient see the other recipients email
addresses, unless you use the BCC: field.
If you used another email program that only showed YOU the name, not the
email address, the address was still visible to the recipients if you used
the To: or CC: fields.

 

[John Mayson]

Well, guess that means that I will have to switch to another mail service as
I don't like this.

You don't like that your email address is shown in the "From" field?

Alpine will allow you to change the "From" field and you can make it
anything you want.

http://www.washington.edu/alpine/

If you're trying to protect your email address I would suggest getting a
free "throw away" email account from GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.

Masking your "From" field is a bad idea. How will people reply to you?
Do you expect them to enter your email address by hand? If you don't want
them having your email address then why are you emailing them in the first
place?

John

 

[John Mayson]

Sorry, I might have misinterpretted the original poster's question.

Bcc will in fact mask the recipients' email addresses. I have come across
some SMTP servers that don't allow the "To" field to be empty. In that
case you can simply put your own email address there and put your
recipients' email addresses in the "Bcc" field.

John

 

[t-4-2]

No, the OP does not want recipients' addresses appear in the TO field, just
names.
BCC was suggested to the Op. Somehow, for reason beyond my understanding, he
does not like the idea either.
t-4-2