To: or CC: or BCC:

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Peter Hibbs

I am writing some VBA code in Access 2003 to send multiple emails via

Outlook (using Redemption although I don't think that is relevant in

this situation) for a membership database.

What I am trying to determine is the relationship between the three

fields To:, CC: and BCC:. For example, if I were to send an email to

10 different email addresses, and I don't want the recipients to see

all the email addresses of the other members, I would use the BCC:

field.

The question is - would I copy ALL 10 addresses to the BCC field and

leave the To: field blank (which I don't think works) or do I copy one

email address to the To: field and the other 9 to the BCC: field or do

I copy a dummy email address to the To: field and use the BCC: field

for all the 10 addresses. My tests so far seem to indicate that this

option does work (except that the email address in the To: field does

not seem to receive an email, unless I did something wrong).

What would be the correct procedure in this situation?

Also, is there any limit on the number of email addresses that can be

copied to the BCC: field? I would need about 2000 at the most.

TIA

Peter Hibbs.
 
Re: or CC: or BCC:

Think about it: If you don't want recipients to see any of the other's

addresses, you don't want to put one of those member addresses in the To

field, do you? You could use a dummy address, but Outlook itself doesn't

care which technique you use. The best approach is to test with the mail

clients you expect your recipients to have and then choose the approach that

looks the best for your scenario.

Ask your email provider about the limit on recipients in a single message.

It's their limit that counts.

Bcc is not the approach I'd use. Sending a message using Bcc makes it more

likely that the message will be rejected by the recipient's spam filter. My

preferred approach would be to send 10 separate messages, with a single To

address for each one.

Or, for a better long-term solution, use a dedicated mailing list

application or host.

Sue Mosher

"Peter Hibbs" <peter.hibbs@btinternet.com.NO_SPAM> wrote in message

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> I am writing some VBA code in Access 2003 to send multiple emails via
> Outlook (using Redemption although I don't think that is relevant in
> this situation) for a membership database.

> What I am trying to determine is the relationship between the three
> fields To:, CC: and BCC:. For example, if I were to send an email to
> 10 different email addresses, and I don't want the recipients to see
> all the email addresses of the other members, I would use the BCC:
> field.

> The question is - would I copy ALL 10 addresses to the BCC field and
> leave the To: field blank (which I don't think works) or do I copy one
> email address to the To: field and the other 9 to the BCC: field or do
> I copy a dummy email address to the To: field and use the BCC: field
> for all the 10 addresses. My tests so far seem to indicate that this
> option does work (except that the email address in the To: field does
> not seem to receive an email, unless I did something wrong).

> What would be the correct procedure in this situation?

> Also, is there any limit on the number of email addresses that can be
> copied to the BCC: field? I would need about 2000 at the most.

> TIA

> Peter Hibbs.
 
Re: or CC: or BCC:

Hi Sue,

Sending one at a time would certainly be an option, not sure about

sending 2000 though. I will need to do some timing tests to see how

long that would take.

The Mailing List app' is an interesting idea. I Googled that and got

quite a few hits, will look into that as well.

Anyway, thanks for the advice, I'll see how I get on with those

options.

Peter Hibbs.

On Wed, 13 May 2009 11:46:25 -0400, "Sue Mosher [MVP]"

<suemvp@turtleflock.com> wrote:


> Think about it: If you don't want recipients to see any of the other's
> addresses, you don't want to put one of those member addresses in the To
> field, do you? You could use a dummy address, but Outlook itself doesn't
> care which technique you use. The best approach is to test with the mail
> clients you expect your recipients to have and then choose the approach that
> looks the best for your scenario.

> Ask your email provider about the limit on recipients in a single message.
> It's their limit that counts.

> Bcc is not the approach I'd use. Sending a message using Bcc makes it more
> likely that the message will be rejected by the recipient's spam filter. My
> preferred approach would be to send 10 separate messages, with a single To
> address for each one.

> Or, for a better long-term solution, use a dedicated mailing list
> application or host.
 
Put your own address into the To field and the 10 real recipients into BCC.

The number of allowed addresses might be limited by your provider.

Best regards

Michael Bauer

Am Wed, 13 May 2009 16:28:16 +0100 schrieb Peter Hibbs:


> I am writing some VBA code in Access 2003 to send multiple emails via
> Outlook (using Redemption although I don't think that is relevant in
> this situation) for a membership database.

> What I am trying to determine is the relationship between the three
> fields To:, CC: and BCC:. For example, if I were to send an email to
> 10 different email addresses, and I don't want the recipients to see
> all the email addresses of the other members, I would use the BCC:
> field.

> The question is - would I copy ALL 10 addresses to the BCC field and
> leave the To: field blank (which I don't think works) or do I copy one
> email address to the To: field and the other 9 to the BCC: field or do
> I copy a dummy email address to the To: field and use the BCC: field
> for all the 10 addresses. My tests so far seem to indicate that this
> option does work (except that the email address in the To: field does
> not seem to receive an email, unless I did something wrong).

> What would be the correct procedure in this situation?

> Also, is there any limit on the number of email addresses that can be
> copied to the BCC: field? I would need about 2000 at the most.

> TIA

> Peter Hibbs.
 
Thanks Michael, that would seem a sensible solution.

Peter Hibbs.

On Thu, 14 May 2009 18:33:19 +0200, "Michael Bauer "

<mb@mvps.org> wrote:



> Put your own address into the To field and the 10 real recipients into BCC.
> The number of allowed addresses might be limited by your provider.
 
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