making 'undisclosed recipients'

I believe that the only way to do what you want is to put no email addresses in either the "TO" nor in the "CC" areas, and to put ALL your recipients email addresses in the "BCC" list. What the recipient sees when receiving such an email depends on the email client being used. Some will say what you want, "Undisclosed Recipients" and others will say "(Recipient list suppressed)" and others will say something different but similar. And some will indicate actually nothing about recipients, there will appear to be none to the reader of the email, the message will say whom it is from however.

This would be easier to control if every mail program acted the same, but they don't.

Hi Calvin: I'm not sure why Bcc wouldn't work in your case, but that is the purpose of Bcc. It does send an email to "undisclosed recipients". Or at least it does when I send in that form.

Just noticed you are on Tiger, I can't remember how it was in Tiger, Sorry.

Stedman

Message was edited by: stedman1

Hi, I don't know if this is a Leopard only thing but what I do is this:

1. Mail Preferences -> Composing : under 'addressing' uncheck 'when sending to a group, show all member addresses'.
2. Create a group for all the addresses you want to send the mail to.
3. Then in the TO: field type the group name.

The recipient will see 'Undisclosed-recipients: ;' in the TO: field.

Now, myself I wish there was a way for the recipient to ONLY see its own e-mail address instead of that text...

Right. Mail To yourself and put the recipient list in the BCC (blind carbon copy) field is the only way. There are only three places to enter a destination email address into an email - To, CC, and BCC. Of those three, only BCC hides the addresses.

Maybe the OP was looking for the email equivalent of invisible ink?

As steadman1 and steve626 have indicated, when you compose a message, putting ALL recipients into the bcc field and NO recipients in the to or cc fields will mask the list of recipients from being able to be seen by any recipient. I do this quite frequently and when I do, the message shows up as being addressed to "(undisclosed recipients)". I really don't see how that doesn't accomplish what you are trying to do. You will have to elaborate further. What precisely are you doing now, what exactly are your recipients seeing as the addressee(s), if not "(undisclosed recipients)", and what answer are you seeking?

but didn't get the answer I was seeking

What answer were you seeking?

I do it the way the others who have answered do it.

I usually put my own email address in the To: line because some recipients are not to clueful about email and will spend more time wondering "how did I get this?" than reading the message.

I usually put this in the To: field--

Recipient List Hidden <fred@example.com>

And so I get a copy, of course, but everyone in the BCC field sees that written out in the mail.

-fred

Nils Hendriks wrote:

1. Mail Preferences -> Composing : under 'addressing' uncheck 'when sending to a group, show all member addresses'.
2. Create a group for all the addresses you want to send the mail to.
3. Then in the TO: field type the group name.

This feature is present in Tiger's Mail.app too. However, when I follow these steps, Mail refuses to send the message:

"<group name> does not appear to be a valid email address. Please check the address and try again."

Is this feature broken in Tiger Mail? Is there something else I'm missing?