Re: Question about Carbon Copy and Blind Carbon Copy in Outlook Express

Hi Dave,
When I send to multiple addresses, I separate them by commas. You could also use semicolons as delimiters, too. Entering 38 addresses manually is a bit cumbersome, though, kind of a pain in the tail, really.
Are all of the 38 people in your Outlook Express address book? If so, you could go about this a couple of different ways.
First, you could go to the Tools menu and press Enter on Select Recipients. In the Select Recipients dialog, you could select all 38 of the addresses you want from your address list, then press alt+b to plug them into the .bcc list. Tab past the bcc button to the bcc list and check to make sure everybody's in there. If so, click OK and you're done. If not, shift+tab back to the address list, pick up anybody that you missed and press alt+b again. When you're through, recheck the bcc list, press Enter on OK and you're placed back in your open message.
Second, you could create what's called a Group, which is in essence a distribution list. It's basically a subset of your address book which is assigned a unique name. Setting up a group is a bit more complicated, so I won't get into it here. After the group is created, you plug the group name into the .bcc field and you're good to go.
One warning, then I'm outa here. If all of your recipients are at the same domain and mail server, a la pacbell.net, for example, watch out: you might run into a problem with the server's spam filter, so don't be too surprised or bummed out if your message with all of those recipients gets bounced back to you. That happened to me when I tried to send to 100 people at the same domain in one fell swoop. I used a group distribution list to do that, and, since the message bounced, I then had to split that group into two separate groups and send two messages, first to one group, then the other. That seemed to appease the spam filter and I got away with it. 

Hope this helps.
Tom
----- Original Message ----- From: "dave-d0619" <dave-d0619@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:33 PM
Subject: Question about Carbon Copy and Blind Carbon Copy in Outlook Express



Hello Listers:

I want to send an email message to someone but, I also would like to send
the same message to 38 additional people.

I have to following questions:
1. In addition to the email addresses you want to include in the BCC field, 
what is the syntax to ensure that Outlook Express sends all 38 additional
copies?

2.  What is the maximum number of email addresses that you can include in
the Carbon Copy and Blind Carbon Copy Fields?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

Sincerely:

Dave Durber

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