Discrete yet personal mailing to groups

I'm asking the same question which was asked back in 2002, without a satisfactory answer. Hopefully, there's one now.

I wish to send emails to a group, but only want the recipient to see his/her own name in the 'to' field and not all the other names in the group.

If I simply 'bcc' to my group name, each recipient sees the words 'undisclosed recipient' or 'none' in the 'to' field, not their personal name.

If I put the group name in the 'to' field, then everyone's names appear when the recipients receive their copies. I don't want all the group's email addresses to show on individual emails.

I know it can be done because I receive group mailings addressed only to me.

I'm using IE 6. Can anyone enlighten me?

 

And does this mean all the other recipients of the group email see their personal name in the 'to' field, but no one else's?

This is what I want to accomplish and so hope your answer is 'yes'.

 

Arie...thank you. Since I don't have Outlook, I'll have to continue using the BCC function in Outlook Express.

Thanks for your help.

 

In Outlook Express, what I do is create a new contact named "Friends" using my e-mail address. Then in the outgoing message to a group, I address the e-mail to Friends (i.e., myself) and add all the real recipients in the BCC area. The result is that each recipient sees the message addressed to "Friends" rather than to my name, so he/she knows this is a message to a number of undisclosed recipients. (Of course, if the recipient double-clicks on "Friends" he/she will see that it was originally addressed to myself.) This way the message doesn't seem as impersonal as it does when <undisclosed recipient> appears in the TO field.
I'd be interested to know if there are any better ways to do this.

Frank D