Mail to undisclosed recipients

Sometimes emails I get say they're to undisclosed recipeints. Is there any way I can get OE 6 to hide email addresses in the To field that way?

 

If you use the BCC (blind carbon copy), the recipient will not be able to view the email addresses.

 

Just my two cents on this....I'm a firm advocate of this practise as a way of not proliferating email addresses when jokes, etc are passed on ad infinitum. I know the people I send stuff to, but I don't know where it goes after that, which is the scary part. Perhaps I'm being paranoid, but to me its part of safe surfing....

 

Admin.....not sure I understand why you say this:

But it's better to have one address in the TO field, so the "undisclosed recipeints" won't show there (it counts in certain anti-spam filters).

Putting nothing in the TO field ensures nothing shows there...and putting all addressees in the BCC field ensures their names don't show either.

What am I missing here?

 

I don't think all email programs allow you to leave the TO: field blank. OE6 seems to allow it, but I seem to remember another that did not. (Maybe AOL).

 

If I get such emails, I delete them out of hand..Good transports for virus stuff. If it's real important and genuine , they'll send another one..And if it still undisclosed, I'll zap that too, until they put a name on it that I know...

 

How about this as a solution...

Put your own name in the "˜From’ field (so "˜To:’ and "˜From:’ are the same person) and then your list goes in the bcc box. The recipients will see a name that they recognize in the "˜From:’ field and everybody's privacy is maintained.

Does that set off the Spam filters?

 

What you're missing is that if you....etc

Gotcha! And putting my own name in both the TO and FROM fields should counter some anti-spam filters (assuming my friends don't consider me such!).

Thanks for this tip....now if I could just convince my friends of the value of this....