Outlook - Undisclosed Recipient

[Dryheat]

I've received emails from people where in place of the list of recipients it shows only the words "Undisclosed-Recipient". I checked the FAQ and Forums on this site, as well as the Help file in Outlook and can not find any info on how to do this.
Any ideas?

Dry

 

[smah]

To do this when sending, put all your recipients in the BCC: field and leave the To: field blank. When received, the message will appear to 'undisclosed recipients'.

 

[SimonDavis]

You use the BCC box for the real recipients - the undisclosed recipints address is a dummy.

BCC means Blind carbon copy - the real recipients can't see who the message went to.


In outlook, when you compose a message, click on the 'to' button, and you'll see three boxes for addresses; 'to' 'cc' and 'bcc'. Put a dummy address in the 'to' box, and the actual ones yo want to send it to in the 'bcc' box. Leave the 'cc' box empty.

 

[SimonDavis]

Well, I just learned something too!

 

[MoiraT]

This is probably done by the sender setting up a contact called "undisclosed recipients" with their own email address then sending the mail to that contact and by BCC to the intended recipients. That way no-one knows who else has received the mail.

 

[Dryheat]

Thanks for all the quick responses.

Dry