Hiding E-mail Addresses when Sending to Multiple Recipients in Outlook 2007

by rhyttinen on June 24, 2009

Because of privacy concerns, it is not recommended to display everyone’s e-mail address when sending mail to multiple recipients. Some people may even become quite upset with you if you do so. One option is to send an e-mail to yourself and Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) your recipients. Unfortunately, e-mail sent this way is often flagged as spam and ends up in the recipients junk folder.

A better option is to send an e-mail to an undisclosed recipients group. You can name this group anything you like: Undisclosed Recipients, Fred’s Bowling Group, My Best Buddies, etc. Only the group name will show up in the recipient’s To field, thus hiding all the other e-mail addresses.

To create an “undisclosed recipients” group

  1. Click the New button’s drop-down arrow and choose “Contact”.
  2. Type the name for your group in the Full Name field (i.e. Undisclosed recipients, Movie group, etc.)
  3. Type in your own e-mail address in the Address field.
  4. Click the Save and Close icon.

Adding Undisclosed Recipients Group in Outlook

To send an e-mail to the “undisclosed recipients group”

  1. Click the New button’s drop-down arrow and choose “Mail Message” to create a new e-mail message.
  2. Click the To button
  3. Click the “Undisclosed Recipients” entry in the Select Names dialog box.
  4. Click the To-> button and then click OK.
  5. Type the contents of your message and then click Send.

Select Name dialog box in Outlook

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KwanRaharja November 7, 2009 at 3:59 pm

That answer is for field TO will apper as undisclosed-recipients, the question is : How to create email and in the FROM FIELD will see as undisclosed-recipients , so the recipients can not see my email address, please help, Thanks.

rhyttinen November 7, 2009 at 7:08 pm

From the Outlook menu, click Tools > Account Settings. Select the account you want to modify and then click change. In the “Your Name” box, type in the name you want to appear in the From field (i.e “Undisclosed”). In the e-mail address box, type in the e-mail address you want displayed. This must be in a valid email format, such as nobody@noone.com. This will then provide a fake e-mail address and name. Hope that helps.

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