Displaying Only One Recipient in "To:" Field When Sending Group Email

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Displaying Only One Recipient in "To:" Field When Sending Group Email

Is it possible for recipients of a group email to only see their name in the "To:" field of the email? If so, how? Thanks.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4), Mac Mail

Posted on Aug 13, 2010 8:32 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 22, 2010 7:02 PM in response to POEPhotography

POEPhotography, what I do to handle this is to use the "bcc" field for all recipients, instead of the "to" field. I put my own name in the "to" field.

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Answer 2

Barney-15E

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Aug 22, 2010 7:53 PM in response to POEPhotography

Mail preferences, Composing, there is an option for what you want, but it is better to use the bcc field.

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Answer 3

Aug 23, 2010 11:07 AM in response to POEPhotography

The answer is no -- if you select to not show members of a group, but have the Group name in the To, then the recipient sees "Undisclosed Recipient", and no one's actual name in the To header. If you select to show members of a Group, then all will be seen by every recipient.

Ernie

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Answer 4

Sep 9, 2010 6:51 AM in response to POEPhotography

When I use the Bcc field, recipients say they are seeing my name in the "To:" and "From:" fields, but they do not see their name in the "To:" field. Is that the best that you can do, or is there a way to get the recipient to see his name in the "To:" field or any other field?

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Answer 5

Sep 9, 2010 7:35 AM in response to POEPhotography

The answer is no. Only separate email messages can provide that, or there are some specialty services that can do that from a list you provide them, but they are then sending one message for each recipient. I think it would take a special feature in the SMTP service, and not anything in Mail (or other email clients) to accomplish what you want. It may be possible to automate sending a separate message for each, but if there are 100 people in the list, then 100 messages would be sent. However this might not make you popular with your provider as they sometimes limit the number of messages you can send.

Ernie

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Answer 6

Ranice

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Sep 30, 2010 9:04 AM in response to Ernie Stamper

If I bcc myself on an email to a Group, the recipients and I only see <undisclosed recipients> in the "To:" field.

If I go back later to refer to the email, there is no way to see which Group it was sent to. I'd really like to have the Group name in the "To:" field but I don't want each individual's info because it's too unwieldy. Is there a way to resolve this?

Thanks.

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Answer 7

dianejk

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Dec 8, 2010 6:27 PM in response to Ernie Stamper

I want my groups to know I'm sending to that particular group ... like "Family" so they know it's gone to the others and they know it's not a general email... but all my groups just show up as a terribly unfriendly "undisclosed recipient". When I was using Entourage the groups were sent as I named them... like "Friends" "Family" etc. This is sooo much nicer and explains the reason for sending at times.
Any hope for this or ideas?
Thanks
Diane

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