on 5/13/02 9:04 AM, Paul Berkowitz wrote: > On 5/13/02 8:22 AM, "Remo Del Bello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 5/13/02 6:39 AM, Gordon Sell deftly typed out: >> >>> Entourage has a handy little box in the New Group/Group window that says >>> "Don't show addresses when sending to group." >>> >>> By checking this box, everyone in that group becomes an individual "to:" >>> recipient, and they don't see all the other addresses on your list. I think >>> this is better than bcc:ing people. >> >> I'm pretty sure that all that checking that box does is place the recipient >> addresses in BCC for you. At least, that is what happened when I tested it >> just now. >> > > Yup. That's what it does. It puts the Group name in the To line on your own > screen as a sort of placeholder, and makes a BCC header with the names of > all the group members, and a blank To header in the actual message. I've > kept this to myself for while, but i must say that I'm mystified that the > developers have said they're following an RFC protocol that forbids sending > messages with no To or Cc header (although this RFC has been debated by some > people), so you can't do this for yourself in the address box, and then they > turn around and do exactly that in implementing Groups/Hide Addresses. > > Any comment, MBU people?
So a month later or so, I guess the MBU people are so mystified by their own inconsistency that they do not have any comment. I am by no means an e-mail expert, but it would sure be nice to keep the group name in the To header when the email is sent with the hidden names in the bcc header. I would guess that an SMTP server might barf over a name in the To header that was not an e-mail address, but maybe there is some way to flag it as information only. I know that groups that I send to would like to have some indication of who it was sent to. So for the time being I am turning off the hide addresses option. I was only using it to save space in the displayed and printed messages anyway rather than for anonymity. Cheers, Jim -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
