How do you send a message to yourself and it goes to different people

I have often received email messages where a sender sends a message to different people, and yet, it's addressed to themselves (the From and the To fields are both the name of the sender).

How is it done?

 

When sending the email enter your own address in the "To:" field. Then enter everyone else you wish to send it to in the "Bcc:" field. Bcc means blind carbon copy. A 'carbon copy' sends the email to multiple addresses and lets everyone see who. The 'blind carbon copy', on the other hand, hides the recipients from view.

 

Of course! Thanks.

 

Using BCC to put all of your real recipients in, is a very useful tool when you want to send a message to multiple recipients, and you don't want the recipients to have access to the other recipients in your mailing list.

 

Sometimes I receive emails where the "To:" is not the sender's address but " undisclosed recipients". How is that done?

 

All were sent via BCC.

Cheers!

 

But how can you manage to get the "Undisclosed recipients" on the "To" line (instead of a blank)?

 

That depends on your mail client. If the "To:" field is empty and all other addresses are sent BCC, then you should see that behavior.

 

I tried that, but the received message just has a blank (empty) in "To:".

 

MS Outlook can do Undisclosed Recipients it the To: line if you enter

"Undisclosed Recipients <,>"

not sure about other programs or web clients.

 

You are right, the messages I got was indeed from someone using MS Outlook, however the details may be wrong: I just tried that using Outlook myself (typing the above in " To:" and BCC to some address) but got "One of the recipients can't be resolved."