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Article #2371Eudora BCC probs...help!
From: crw
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:00
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(plz respond DIRECTLY to my E-mail address, as well as post your
response here for others to read and learn from...)
Hi!
I had to do a mass mailing, sending an announcement, to libraries in
the US and abroad -- in all I had about 1000 or 2000 E-Mail addresses.
In the past, I've done the mailing gradually over time, one by one.
This time I decided to try and use the BCC (blind carbon copy) feature
of Eudora 1.5.2
For several weeks I played around with it...sending mail to my E-Mail
lists of one- or two-hundred names. All seemed to work perfectly!
Each person received his/her own copy, without all the other addresses
showing up.
Then, last night I decided to do the mass mailing to libraries. I put
all the library addresses in a nickname group, "libraries."
I clicked "libraries" into the BCC field in nicknames, and everything
appeared to be A-OK in the letter itself, with "libraries" correctly
showing in the BCC field.
...And then I sent it.
Horror of horrors, I've just learned tdoay that ALL one- or
two-thousand recipients got a four page list of co-recipients !! I've
been receiving angry mail all morning. For good reason!
I am mortified.
I still do not know what went wrong. I've looked at the letter I sent
in my OUT box...everything looks perfect. In my BCC: field is the
name "libraries." In my TO: field is a name I arbitarily made up and
enclosed in parentheses:
TO: (Library Information)crw@loop.com
All the addresses that were supposed to be invisible in the BCC: field
instead go put in the TO: field following the above.
I am puzzled.
I suspect that this is either a glitch with this version 1.55.2 of this
shareware ... or it was caused by having too many names in the BCC:
field ... or it was some sort of once-in-a-life-time fluke.
Anyone with an informed, or strong, opinion, please communicate!
Thanks!
Robert
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