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Hide multiple email addresses using Undisclosed Recipients option

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Contributed by: Prashant on December 9, 2006  |  Comment
Stop helping spammers

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 pics 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.

So how are we going to undisclose (hide) the email recipients (addresses)?

Just follow these simple steps ..

» 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.

» Type ‘Undisclosed Recipients’ followed by your <email address> (include braces) in the ‘To’ field.
This should look like: ‘Undisclosed Recipients’ <your_email_address@example.com>

» Enter the email addresses of friends to whom you want to send the email seperated by commas/semicolons in the ‘BCC‘ field.
This should look like: friend1@example.com, friend2@example.com, friend3@example.com

» Now compose your message and click on ’send’.

» The bottom line: Please help to prevent yourself and your friends from spammers.






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8 Comments so far

December 10, 2006
Sana

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

December 10, 2006
Prashant

@Sana

In your Outlook express click on View > All Headers

December 16, 2006
russell wyllie

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.

March 17, 2007
Rishi Dubai

[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!!

March 28, 2007
none

How about the email headers?

April 18, 2007
Anusree

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

April 18, 2007
Anusree

I can’t use for hotmail

May 13, 2007
Claude Gelinas

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 ; )

July 23, 2008
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