Undisclosed recipients - what is it and how to do it?

What is Undisclosed recipients, and what is the essence of this method? Carrying out mass mailing, the sender does not want all the recipients in the list to see who else sent this letter. It looks, at least, unprofessional. Some people think that the only way to solve this problem is to send an individual email to each recipient, but it takes too much time. Fortunately, there is an easier way. This is sending emails using the Undisclosed recipients method (translation - “undisclosed recipients”). Let's consider in more detail.

An alternative is to send an email to multiple recipients with all their addresses in the “To” (to) or “Cc” (blind carbon copy) fields. This not only looks messy for everyone to whom the message was sent, but also reveals everyone's email address.

How does the Undisclosed recipients method work and what is it?

Sending an email to undisclosed recipients is as easy as putting all their addresses in the "Bcc" (blind copy) field so that they are not visible to each other. This process involves sending an email called Undisclosed recipients so that everyone can clearly see that the message has been sent to several people whose identities are unknown.

Undisclosed recipients translated into Russian sounds like “undisclosed recipients”. Sending an email to these recipients protects everyone’s privacy. It also makes mail professional.

How to send an email to undisclosed recipients

In order to understand how to make Undisclosed recipients a newsletter, you need to follow the following rules:

1. Create a new message in the mail client.
2. In the "To" field, enter Undisclosed recipients, and then specify the email address in <>. This is not difficult. For example, Undisclosed recipients <example@example.com>.
3. If this does not work, you should create a new contact in the address book. You need to call him Undisclosed recipients, and then enter your email address. This is done in the address text box.
4. In the field "Bcc:" enter all the email addresses to which the message should be sent, separated by commas. If these recipients are already contacts, you can simply start typing their names so that the program automatically fills these entries.
5. If the “Bcc:” field is not displayed in the mail program by default, open the settings and find this parameter so that it can be turned on.
6. Compose the rest of the message as usual by adding a subject and writing the text of the message, and then sending it.
7. If you need to do this often, it’s best to establish a new contact called Undisclosed recipients, which contains its own email address. Next time it will be easier to send a message to the contact that is already in the address book.

Although these general instructions work in most email programs, there may be slight variations.

Caution Bcc

Now that it has become clear what Undisclosed recipients are and how to use this method, it should be noted that there is a significant difference between this way of mass mailing of letters and the use of the “blind carbon copy” function.

Viewing undisclosed recipients in the To: field of an email is a clear sign that other people have received the same email, but finding out who it is is not possible.

To understand this, you need to consider whether you need to send your email to only one recipient (but not to undisclosed recipients), or simply to hidden recipients. The problem that arises here is that the original or any other recipient of the blind carbon copy finds out that a letter that was considered personal was also sent to other people. This can damage the sender's reputation and cause unpleasant feelings in the recipient.

How do they know about this? Everything is simple. When one of the recipients of the blind copy presses the “reply to all” button in the email, the person’s identity is revealed to all recipients. Even though no other “Bcc” names were disclosed, the very existence of a hidden list was discovered.

Here a lot can go wrong if one of the recipients responds with derogatory remarks about someone who is on the list of blind copies. This mistake, which is too easy to make, can cost an employee his work or spoil relations with an important client.

Therefore, the bottom line is to use cryptographic lists with caution and broadcast your existence under the name Undisclosed recipients. The second option is to simply indicate in the email that it was sent to other people too, and that no one should use the “reply to all” option.

Features of use

Trying to understand what Undisclosed recipients are and how to use it, you should understand that this method of sending is a popular way to send unwanted messages by spammers, so you need to use it with caution. All you need is for one person to make a complaint to their email service provider, and you can easily get into the black list.

For the most part, e-mail is a means of communication “from one to another” or “one to several,” but the possibility of sending the latter is so overloaded with spam that people begin to completely abandon this method of communication.