Undisclosed Recipients in IncrediMail

      Of all the reasons not to disclose something, not many are good reasons.

But protecting the privacy of the people that make up the diverse group to which you forward a joke is usually a good reason. Don't reveal the names and email addresses of all recipients, especially if they do not know each other well.

In IncrediMail, hiding recipients is easy using the Bcc: field, and we can make it even better and prettier by using a trick that displays our emails as going to "Undisclosed recipients".

Send an Email to Undisclosed Recipients in IncrediMail

First, let's set up a special address book entry that helps us avoid typing "Undisclosed recipients" more often than is absolutely necessary.

•     Select Tools | Address Book... from the menu in IncrediMail.

•     Click the Contact toolbar button.

•     Type "Undisclosed" under First:.

•     Enter "recipients" under Last:.

•     Type your email address under Email Address:.

•     Click OK.

•     Close the Address Book.

To send an email to a group of people with individual recipients hidden and "Undisclosed recipients" in the To: field:

•     Start with a new email message in IncrediMail.

•     If you do not see a Bcc: field, select View | Show 'Bcc' Field from the menu.

•     Click on the To: button.

•     Highlight Undisclosed recipients.

•     Click To ->.

•     Now highlight all people in your address book you want to receive the message.

                Of course, you can also highlight a group.

•     Click Bcc ->.

•     Click OK.

•     Add any additional recipients' email addresses to the Bcc: field.

                Make sure you separate addresses with semicolons.

•     Compose and eventually send your message.

You'll Get a Copy

Since your email address is in the To: field, you will get a copy of your message to "undisclosed recipients" — do not let that alarm you. These steps can be followed for IncrediMail installed in Windows XP, 2000, 98 etc