Re: script for Eudora and Bcc
Re: script for Eudora and Bcc
- Subject: Re: script for Eudora and Bcc
- From: Aaron Louis <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:50:36 -0600
At 4:43 pm -0800 2002/01/10, David Graham wrote:
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At 8:19 am +0800 2002/01/10, Aaron Louis wrote:
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>>I want to be able to use Bcc in Eudora and send an email to
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>>multiple recipients so that each recipient sees only his/her
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>>individual email address in the 'To' field. Eudora can't do that
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>>inherently. Each person will see the same thing - whatever is in
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>>the 'To' field when I send the message. Maybe another email client
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>>for Mac will do that, I don't know.
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At 1:07 AM +0000 1/10/02, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
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>Sorry, but this is impossible.
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Nope, not impossible ... not even difficult either. There's two ways
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to do this in Eudora:
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1) Enclose multiple recipients like so...
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Recipient List Suppressed :email@hidden, email@hidden;
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Notice that a colon precedes the first entry and a semicolon follows
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the last entry.
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2) Make a nickname in your Eudora address book and add as many
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addresses as you want. Enter something in the name field like
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"Recipient List Suppressed". Now when you send mail to that nickname
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Eudora will automatically add the colon/semicolon to your recipient
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list.
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As far as I know, this is something that happens on the mail server
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so it should work fine with any mail client.
The original poster wanted to have the recipient see only his/her
email address, your method (which seems equivalent to using BCC:)
will simply suppress the recipient list, not the same thing. The
point, that I made in my email, is that the mail client will only put
the addresses in the RCPT TO: smtp command and not in the TO: header
in the body of the email (that is after the DATA command).
Giuliano
Correct Giuliano, I have found through much experimenting that an
individual email has to be sent to each of multiple recipients for
each recipient to see his own email address (but only his email address and
no others) in the 'To' field. Bcc will not allow that. However, I
have found a way to 'human automate' that process and I wonder if
a script couldn't duplicate what I do by hand.
Below is the technique I came up with if both the subject and main text
of each email are identical. Only the address in the 'To'
field is different for each email. Maybe this process, or a similar
process could be scripted...
This technique uses nicknames in Eudora, each nickname having only one address.
Possibly a database of some kind could be used for a list of addresses.
First I create text clipping #1 of what I want to go in the subject field.
Then I create text clipping #2 of what I want as the main text of the email.
Open address book
Select nickname
click 'To' (a new email opens up with the nickname in the 'To' field)
drag clipping #1 to subject field
drag clipping #2 to main body of email
close window
click 'save' (email is saved to the 'out' folder)
That's it, 7 steps. There's probably a more efficient way of doing this.
Goes pretty fast when you get used to it - definitely less than 10 seconds
per email. Then I repeat the process after selecting the next nickname
until all are in the 'out' box. All I do then is select them all and
queue them to be sent late at night.
Couldn't a script do this, or something similar to get the same result?
Aaron