How to send group email without showing addresses outlook

Q: How do I hide email addresses in a group email?

When youre using BCC for your mass mail, you will be able to hide the recipients. Its a very easy way to hide the recipients and every popular email client offers the BCC option. BCC is short for Blank Carbon Copy. Recipients of these emails will be able to see all the To: and CC: recipients.

When you are emailing sensitive business information to employees, vendors or clients, you might occasionally want to prevent recipients from seeing the names and email addresses of others who received copies of your message. All email clients give you the ability to hide recipients by entering a list of email addresses in the "Bcc" or "Blind Carbon Copy" field. The procedure for adding Bcc recipients varies from one email client to another.

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Gmail

Click "Compose" in your Gmail account.
Click "Add Bcc" below the "To" field to insert a Bcc field at that location.
Type in the email addresses of your intended recipients in the Bcc field.
Enter a subject, type the body of the message, and then click "Send."

Hotmail/Outlook.com

Click "New" on your Outlook.com account home page.
Click "Cc & Bcc" to the right of the "To" field. The Cc and Bcc lines are added on the left side of the screen.
Type in the email addresses of your intended recipients in the Bcc field.
Enter a subject, type the body of the message and click "Send."

Microsoft Office Outlook

Click "New" in Microsoft Office Outlook to open a new email message.
Select "Options" in the ribbon toolbar, then click "Show Bcc" in the Fields section. The Bcc field appears under the Cc field and to the right of the "Send" button.
Type the email addresses of your intended recipients in the Bcc field.
Enter a subject, type the body of your message and click "Send."

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When you send an email to a group of friends (some of them are unknown to each other) with putting all of them to the “To” field, it is obviously to expose others email addresses to the unknown people. For keeping recipients email addresses from exposure, you can send them all to the undisclosed recipients and just use the “bcc” field while sending. This tutorial lists all the details of sending email to undisclosed recipients in Outlook.

Sending email to undisclosed recipients in Outlook

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Sending email to undisclosed recipients in Outlook

For sending email to undisclosed recipients, firstly you need to create a new contact with the full name of “undisclosed recipients”, please do as follows.

1. Get into the Contacts view by clicking Contacts in the Navigation Pane in Outlook 2007 and 2010. If you are using Outlook 2013, please click People at the bottom of Outlook main interface.

2. Open the Contacts folder which you want to save the “undisclosed recipients” contact in.

3. Then click New Contact under Home tab in Outlook 2010 and 2013.

In Outlook 2007, please click New button in the Ribbon.

4. In the popping up Contact dialog box, you need to:

1). Type the words “Undisclosed recipients” in the Full Name textbox;

2). Type your own email address completely in the E-mail textbox;

3). Click Save & Close button.

Then the Undisclosed recipients contact is created.

Now you can send email to this undisclosed recipients. Please go on the following operation.

5. Go back to the Mail view by clicking Mail in the Navigation Pane.

6. Create a new email message by clicking New E-mail under Home tab.

7. In the Message window, type the letter of “u” in the “To” field, and then select the Undisclosed recipients from the auto complete list or click the To button to choose the Undisclosed recipients from the Select Names: Contacts dialog box. See screenshot:

8. Click the Options > Bcc to show the Bcc field if it is not displayed in the Message window, then click Bcc button to select the recipients you want to send email to from the Outlook contacts folder.

9. Compose your email and then click Send button to send it.

When the recipients receive the email, they can only see the Undisclosed recipients locates in the “To” field and see no other recipients.

Note: If the email did not be received through Outlook and opened in other mail application by recipients, there will be the sender’s own email address showing in the To filed instead of the Undisclosed recipients.

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How do I send a group email without showing all addresses?

To send emails to small groups where everybody knows each other, use the Cc field. Enter all of the addresses there, separated by commas. To hide addresses, use the Bcc field, just like the Cc field. No one will be able to see the addresses added in this field.

How do I hide email addresses in a group email?

When you're using BCC for your mass mail, you will be able to hide the recipients. It's a very easy way to hide the recipients and every popular email client offers the BCC option. BCC is short for 'Blank Carbon Copy'. Recipients of these emails will be able to see all the 'To:' and 'CC:' recipients.