OK, I guess your original message confused me, because what you are
describing is how BCC is supposed to work -- sort of. If you (I'll call you
Geek just based on your posting name -- sorry <g>) send a message with Geek
in the To field and Fred and Mary in the BCC field, here is what should
happen:
1) You (Geek) should get one copy of the message -- you will see that it was
addressed to you and you only. You will not see the BCC information
anywhere, not even in the full message headers.
2) Fred and Mary should each get a message which appears to be addressed
only to Geek. They will not see their names or addresses in any field or in
the message header. This may confuse them, but in this day and age many
folks know about BCC, since a lot of ads they get use this technique too.
3) None of you -- Geek, Fred or Mary -- should get more than one copy of the
message unless you, Geek, sent it more than once.
In a nutshell, BCC does not address e-mails individually to the BCC
recipients -- the messages GO to those recipients but that's it. And the ISP
does strip the BCC info after sending the messages to the BCC recipients --
that's to preserve the "blind" part of the BCC concept.
You would need to do a mail merge in order to address each mail to each
contact separately. More information on mail merge can be found here:
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/startletter.htm
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm#massmail
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geekseeker said:
Thanks Jocelyn ... I'll give it a try with the ISP, but I am not entirely
sure the problem is there. May you can help confirm this by looking over the
following:
After receiving your reply I did run another test then went to the ISP web
mail site and looked in each of the three mailboxes and found an appropriate
copy in each. Of interest is that the message in each is addressed only to
the sender, i.e., "A." While the web mail mailboxes for "B" and "C" contain
a copy of the message their names do not show up as addressees! SOoooo when
my Outlook goes to the ISP server to find new messages for each mailbox, it
finds one in each box but the only address in each is A's address - this is
why when I receive the messages back in Outlook they all appear addressed to
A. Is this the way it should be or is the ISP stripping off the "B" and "C"
address info? I was under the impression that B shsould receive the
message as though it were addressed to B only [and perhaps A?] and C should
receive the message as though it was addressed to C only [and perhaps A?]. As
it actually appears B and C believe that they have received email from A but
addressed to only A.
By the way the same thing happens when I use the ISP webmail interface ...so
if this is a problem it must surely be the ISP mail processing.
Jocelyn Fiorello said:
Sounds to me like you need to talk to your ISP and find out why their server
is messing up the BCCs...
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:
A recent MS Inside Office newsletter features an article on how to send a
message to many without any knowing that others have receive the message. I
attemped to try this using the three account names that I have with my ISP,
and got a surprising result.
Configuration: Outlook 2003 with three accounts (all member of the same ISP
account). Call the account names A, B and C, i.e. (e-mail address removed), (e-mail address removed) and
(e-mail address removed).
Anomaly. A sends email TO: A with BCC: B & C. What should happen is that B
and C receive email without knowing the other also received it. What
actually happens is that as the message is sent, B and C addresses are
replaced by A's address and A receives three copies, B and C receive none.
Variant 2: B or C sends message to themselves with BCC to A and the other.
Regardless of who sends the message, the sender is replaced by A as well as
BCC addresses are replaced by A and A receives 3 copies. SURPRISE!!!
This may be unique to using addresses all within the same ISP account and
therefore inconsequential?
