Email to multiple people but show only the recepient name

T

Terry

Is there a way to send to ten people at once but only
have one name in the To: box at a time? So that the
entire list of people is not sent.
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Use the BCC field.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Terry asked:

| Is there a way to send to ten people at once but only
| have one name in the To: box at a time? So that the
| entire list of people is not sent.
 
S

Spike9458

Terry,

Actually, to accomplish what you're looking for, I was looking for over a
period of several months. ISPs have limits on how many addressees you can
have in the bcc: field, which can be a pain in you have a few hundred people
to email.

I finally discovered, in Office 2003, that if you create your email in MS
Word, you can do a mail-merge to email. Using your contacts, Word will
create a separate email for each addressee, which in turn, circumvents the
spam alarms at your mail server, and the recipient only sees his/her name.
Hint: If including graphics in the body of your email, send it as html so
the pics display properly. There are many other neat things you can
accomplish by doing emails this way. Warning: It works best if you have a
broadband connection. Depending on the size of the email, it can take up to
15 minutes per hundred email addresses. Word first has to process and create
the emails, and Outlook then has to send them all. I once had a list of
about 400 people, and it took about 40 minutes for Outlook to get the last
one out.

I certainly recommend some experimentation first, sending emails this way to
just yourself so you can see what the recipients will see!

Good Luck,

Jim (Office Hacker Extraordinaire)
 
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