What happens when you send email to a list and an individual

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When I address an email to a distribution list, such as "Meeting" and also
address the email to a person who is included in the "Meeting" distribution
list, the person only receives one copy of the email.

I assume that's the way it's supposed to work, but the person is asking me
if it's possible to receive the email twice. We are using Outlook 2003 and
Exchange Server 2003.

-- Carolyn
 
Carolyn said:
When I address an email to a distribution list, such as "Meeting" and
also address the email to a person who is included in the "Meeting"
distribution list, the person only receives one copy of the email.

I assume that's the way it's supposed to work, but the person is
asking me if it's possible to receive the email twice. We are using
Outlook 2003 and Exchange Server 2003.
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Yes, that's the way it is supposed to work because, honestly, 99.999% of
people in the world don't want that functionality. Especially if you work
in an organization with lots of DLs, and people are on a number of those
DLs, and someone sends a message to those DLs. People don't want to get 5
copies of the message.

The only way I'd think you could do it is if you BCC the person. I don't
have an Exchange Server handy to try it with, but, theoretically, the BCC
should be handled as a completely different message, so they should get that
one. But I'm not sure if it will work, so I'd try it. Heck, send a message
to yourself with you on both the To and BCC lines. That might show you if
it'll work.
 
I tried sending an email to a distribution list that I was on, as well as
addressing it to myself in the BCC section, and I only received one copy of
the email. That's fine if that's the way it works. Thank you for taking the
time to reply!

-- Carolyn
 
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