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Hide multiple email addresses using Undisclosed Recipients option

December 9, 2006 under Email Tips Bookmark / Share this Tip..
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I get a lot of emails from my college friends and colleagues which are funny, interesting, informative and worth sharing. These emails get circulated among a whole lot of others I don’t know. Like I got an email that contained some funny pictures of George Bush which already got circulated among 500 friends.

The mail was forwarded from one guy to another and so on. If I was a spammer I would have been delighted to see so many email ids ;) and I would have started bombarding the mail boxes with spam mails. So I wonder are the email addresses worth sharing too? I don’t think so.

How to undisclose (hide) the email recipients (addresses)?

  1. Open your email program (like Outlook Express) or login to your free mail account (like Gmail, Yahoo mail, etc.) and go to compose mail to create a new mail message.
  2. Type ‘Undisclosed Recipients’ followed by your <email address> (include braces) in the ‘To’ field.
  3. This should look like: ‘Undisclosed Recipients‘ <your_email_address@example.com>
  4. Enter the email addresses of friends to whom you want to send the email seperated by commas/semicolons in the ‘BCC‘ field.
  5. This should look like: friend1@example.com, friend2@example.com, friend3@example.com
  6. Now compose your message and click on ’send’.
  7. The bottom line: Protect yourself and your friends from spammers.

The output will look like this:


Hide multiple email addresses using Undisclosed Recipients option

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25 Responses to Hide multiple email addresses using Undisclosed Recipients option

Sana on December 10, 2006

Really helpful tips as I was not aware of how to make use of the undisclosed recipients option :) . Can you please tell where is the BCC option in my Outlook Express?

Thanks in advance

Prashant on December 10, 2006

@Sana

In your Outlook express click on View > All Headers

russell wyllie on December 16, 2006

How do I get people to visit www.youtube.com/politicalvideos
Should video evidence be used against dodgy politicians?

At my website www.youtube.com/politicalvideos there are
many 5-10 minute videos which contain much of the info you’ll need to decide.

Rishi Dubai on March 17, 2007

[quote]I get a lot of emails from my college friends and colleagues[/quote]

Well I am in school and I too get lots of mails which we forward to the. This is really cool. From now on I won’t be disclosing all the mail ids while forwarding as I used to do …

Lets stop helping spammers!!

none on March 28, 2007

How about the email headers?

Anusree on April 18, 2007

I have tried several times but it doesn’t work. there is a warning message that it’s not the right sentence to type

Anusree on April 18, 2007

I can’t use for hotmail

Claude Gelinas on May 13, 2007

That’s an awesome tip -and- with a few easy tweaks, it also works with Thunderbird (an open source mail software).

Thanks for sharing the tech “how to” details ; )

prasad vs on August 4, 2008

where is the BCC option in gmail

Ken NIMBIN on August 16, 2008

This is an excellent tip for anyone who needs to send emails to members of a club or association - you can put together the BCC list in Word etc and not have a long list of “To” for all to see

kevinATLANTA on September 18, 2008

The above is too many steps. Simply open the BCC field in your email address section and click on the contacts in your addressbook and that’s it. Of course, you must type your email and click Send. The BCC field is automatically undisclosed.

Rasool,Bangalor on October 17, 2008

Good Trouble shooting solutions and it will help all people, Free online tips blog is such a good thing must and should support from each and every side…. Thanks

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dave from Calif on November 19, 2008

Really helpful website indeed!!! Thanks!!!

Christopher Atl on November 21, 2008

just wanted to say thanks.

chris

Steve Elberta on November 28, 2008

Well the Undisclosed_Recipients thing works BUT it places YOUR e-mail address in the “Undisclosed-Recipients” and when clicked it shows yoru address…Not a problem becasue it is coming from you anyway..BUT I hav eseen some Undisclosed-Recipients that , when clicked, show NO attached e-mail address…. hummmmm and I did not include a valid e-mail becasue most site are not trustworthy enough….

photoworldblog on January 22, 2009

ur idea doesn’t work :(

julie florida on March 26, 2009

When using Earthlink as an ISP and Outlook Express - I get an error message when I try to put any address in the BCC field. This occurs when I have an address in the TO field or when I don’t. IN fact as long as I have the BCC field displayed, Outlook Express refuses to send any email for me and gives me an error message (which I’ve looked up online and apparently this is a common problem with Earthlink as an ISP)

jai Bangalore on April 1, 2009

it work thks scour

maggie on July 2, 2009

When using the “Undisclosed recipients” format you suggested to use, I keep getting the email sent to myself as well. How can i stop this?

Thanks!

Ronny on July 4, 2009

@maggie: that’s not possible.

Subbu Hyderabad on July 9, 2009

Dear Folks, The ‘Undisclosed Recepient’ is a good thing to know about, however, If you have an email that needs to be sent to 50 of your pals and you dont want other pals know, who those 50 pals are, you can simply type all the email addresses in the box and click send.. That’s it.. The recepients wouldn’t know, how many emails addresses you had opted for - Subbu Hyderabadi (subrahmanyaam@gmail.com)

Subbu Hyderabad on July 9, 2009

Dear Folks, The ‘Undisclosed Recepient’ is a good thing to know about, however, If you have an email that needs to be sent to 50 of your pals and you dont want other pals know, who those 50 pals are, you can simply type all the email addresses in the “BCC:” box and click send.. That’s it.. The recepients wouldn’t know, how many emails addresses you had opted for - Subbu Hyderabadi (subrahmanyaam@gmail.com)

Cristy on July 17, 2009

Ronny-yes it is possible. The way were told do this here, it DOES send it back to your own email address!

Ronny on July 23, 2009

@Cristy: I am not disagreeing; rather I am saying that its not possible to stop sending the mail back to your own email address.

Carlos Vazquez on November 17, 2009

Thanks a lot for your tip, now I can send many emails without wondering if any spammer out there is going to get the addressees for devious purposes.

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