Undisclosed Recipient?

Norm

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Nov 25, 2012, 10:29:13 AM11/25/12

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I am trying to learn how to send e-mail while using the BCC feature,
but using using "Undisclosed Recipient" instead of my own e-mail
address. I have tried a number of ways, but TB just doesn't seem
willing. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Robert Alexander

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Nov 25, 2012, 10:56:13 AM11/25/12

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Do I understand that you want to hide your email address from the people
you send email to. I would delete any like that without even a second
thought.

Bcc: is meant to hide the email addresses of your recipients from each
other.

Here is a good explanation of BCC:

https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/addressing-email?s=undisclosed+recipient&as=s

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Robert

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

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Nov 25, 2012, 11:27:00 AM11/25/12

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Put your recipients in the BCC as you say, but do not put any addresses in
the TO or the CC.

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Mike Easter

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Nov 25, 2012, 11:28:25 AM11/25/12

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Norm wrote:
> I am trying to learn how to send e-mail while using the BCC feature,

BCC hides the addresses of the recipients from each other not the sender

> but using using "Undisclosed Recipient" instead of my own e-mail
> address.

That does not compute. Your email address is the Sender, not the
recipient. If you are saying that you want to send anonymous email,
that doesn't involve BCC.

> I have tried a number of ways, but TB just doesn't seem willing. Any
> suggestions?

Unlike some spamware, Tb uses the From configuration of a mail as part
of its smtp envelope transaction with the mail server, ie HELO, MAIL
FROM, RCPT TO, DATA.

Perhaps if you expressed more clearly a description of what you are
actually trying to do - more specifically - rather than using any terms
like BCC or undisclosed recipient.

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Mike Easter

David E. Ross

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Nov 25, 2012, 1:55:47 PM11/25/12

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I just sent out some test messages, all of which merely left the To:
line blank. It appears that Thunderbird automatically sets up "To:
undisclosed-recipients: ;". My very old Eudora sets up "To: (Recipient
list suppressed)". Problem solved except ...

Some spam filters -- either in a ISP's mail server or in a user's E-mail
application -- will reject incoming messages without a legitimate To:
line. Some mail servers will even reject outgoing messages without a
legitimate To: line.

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David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>

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bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation.
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David E. Ross

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Nov 25, 2012, 2:05:55 PM11/25/12

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On 11/25/12 7:56 AM, Robert Alexander wrote:
> On 11/25/2012 9:29 AM, Norm wrote:
>> I am trying to learn how to send e-mail while using the BCC feature, but
>> using using "Undisclosed Recipient" instead of my own e-mail address. I
>> have tried a number of ways, but TB just doesn't seem willing. Any
>> suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks.
> Do I understand that you want to hide your email address from the people
> you send email to. I would delete any like that without even a second
> thought.

No. Norm wants to send messages to a list of addresses where the
recipients do not see who the other RECIPIENTS are. The recipients will
see Norm's address in the From: line.

Norm does not want to send a redundant copy to himself where even he
cannot see the list of recipients. Instead, he has the original sent
message with the list of recipients (unless he does not keep outgoing
messages).

> Bcc: is meant to hide the email addresses of your recipients from each
> other.
>
> Here is a good explanation of BCC:
>
> https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/addressing-email?s=undisclosed+recipient&as=s
>

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Norm

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Nov 25, 2012, 4:52:48 PM11/25/12

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Thanks for the assistance, I now understand what I have to do to get
the results that I desire. Thanks to all who helped, or tried.

Norm

James Silverton

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Nov 25, 2012, 5:22:05 PM11/25/12

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I'm puzzled; how does a message to "undisclosed recipient" get anywhere?

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James Silverton ( NOT not.jim.silverton)

Was Greywolf

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Nov 25, 2012, 6:17:51 PM11/25/12

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It doesn't. But if you use BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) for the TO list, then
the recipient will see Undisclosed Recipients instead of his or her
address in the TO field.

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Best,
Wolf K.

David E. Ross

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Nov 25, 2012, 6:34:11 PM11/25/12

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If you have E-mail addresses on the Bcc: line, the message will go to
those addresses, whether or not you also have addresses on the To: and
Cc: lines. The recipient will not see what addresses were on the Bcc:
line.

Bcc stands for "blind carbon copy", a term left over from when messages
were hardcopy and when copiers did not yet exist; that is, from when
carbon paper was commonly found in most offices. Back then, however,
only the addressee and those on the Cc ("carbon copy") list did not see
the Bcc list. Anyone on the Bcc list saw all the other names on the Bcc
list. With E-mail today, only the sender sees the Bcc list.

James Silverton

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Nov 25, 2012, 10:51:08 PM11/25/12

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Well; I live and learn. Thanks!