At 02:23 PM 3/3/02 -0500, Jeff Dougherty wrote the following:
>I have a list of customers listed in groups.
>When I create a new message and send to that group, they can all see each
>others' email address.
>I know I can place the group name under BCC, but I think some of the ISP's
>are rejecting those emails as junk mail.
>How can I send mail so when the customer receives the email, all they see is
>the group name?
There are three headers to which e-mail message can be addressed; the
"To:", "Cc:", and "Bcc:" headers.
The "To:" line may also contain more than one address, each separated by a
comma. In this case, the e-mail will be delivered to each address listed in
this line, as well as the "Cc:" line and the otherwise invisible "Bcc:"
line. There really is no functional difference between an address
contained in the "Cc:" or "To:" lines of an e-mail message. Note that the
"To:" header need not contain the recipient's address if the message is
sent to members of a mailing list.
Bcc: ("Blind Carbon Copy") A copy of the mail message that is sent to one
or more recipients without the knowledge of the primary recipients. Primary
recipients are listed in the To: and Cc: lines. This is useful if you want
to copy a message to many people without each of them seeing who the other
recipients are. This header does not appear in incoming e-mail.
Cc: ("Carbon Copy") This header can be considered an extension of the "To:"
field as it is used to specify additional recipients. In this case, the
copy of an e-mail message sent to a recipient has the recipient's address
appearing in the message. This is useful if you want to copy a message to
many people with each of them seeing who the other recipients are. This
header does appear in incoming e-mail.
So, if you want to send e-mail to more than one person (and you are not
using a mailing list) and you don't want the individual recipients to see
the e-mail addresses of the other recipients, then your only possible
option is to use the Bcc line.
Most message (spam or address) blocking occurs on the receiving end
especially mail sent to any address listed in the Realtime Blackhole List
(RBL), a list of ISPs known to host some major spammers. See
http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/
However, web-based (HTTP) mailers like Hotmail and Yahoo have been known to
filter on outbound addresses and discard sent e-mail without informing users.
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Gerry Boyd
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