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Group name against To: should not dispaly their individual email addresses : reply to tiwana@bellaliant.net

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If I give group name say FRIENDS to all contacts under this group, then writing FRIENDS against To: should not show their individual addreses. This works against BCc:, but it should also work against To:

In Eudora, I only wrote To: FRIENDS No body knew who else recvd the message

It worked great in Eudora. I tried TB, but by habit wrote group name against To: and spiled the beans. I don't want others to know who else receivesd the message, I know it works in BCc

Thanx

Jagpal tiwana@bellaliant.net

If I give group name say FRIENDS to all contacts under this group, then writing FRIENDS against To: should not show their individual addreses. This works against BCc:, but it should also work against To: In Eudora, I only wrote To: FRIENDS No body knew who else recvd the message It worked great in Eudora. I tried TB, but by habit wrote group name against To: and spiled the beans. I don't want others to know who else receivesd the message, I know it works in BCc Thanx Jagpal tiwana@bellaliant.net

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You are not using Eudora anymore. Use BCC in Thunderbird if you want to hide the contact addresses.

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In any email program one can use BCC.

That was a unique feature in Eudora Why cant TB has it

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Because no one has developed such a feature, is why Thunderbird does not have it. That feature you speak of is essentially a hybrid mail merge. such as https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/mail-merge/?src=ss

Perhaps you need to get into the habit of sending mail merge mail if BCC does not meet your needs.

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There is an add-on that will check the number of recipients in the To or Cc box to guard against sending without Bcc:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/use-bcc-instead/

http://chrisramsden.vfast.co.uk/3_How_to_install_Add-ons_in_Thunderbird.html