Subject: Re: multiple, mutually exclusive To: recipients

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: 18 Aug 1996 15:12:03 -0700

Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]> wrote:

:     Put the list of recipients in the Bcc: field.  You need to be _sure_
: to put *something* in the To: field.  A cheap and easy way which should
: work regardless of how current your version of Pine is, is to put
: yourself (i.e., your own email address) in the To: field.  If you don't

That won't do what I want.  That will send a copy of the mail to each
recipient in the Bcc: field, however, each piece of mail will have the same
To: field.  I would like the To: field to contain the name of each
recipient who receives the mail, and only his name, so that it looks as if I
sent the mail to him alone.

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 18 Aug 1996 09:48:01 -0700

I'd like to be able to send mail to multiple people, with each one receiving
the message seemingly addressed to himself alone in the To: header.  Is
there a way to do this with PINE?

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From: Beth Peterson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:50:30 -0500

I do not think that there is any way to do what you are asking for.  There are
ways to show everyone or no one but not send to everyone but only show
personal names to the "sendee".  If there is I would like to know as well
though.

|Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]> wrote:
|
|:     Put the list of recipients in the Bcc: field.  You need to be _sure_
|: to put *something* in the To: field.  A cheap and easy way which should
|: work regardless of how current your version of Pine is, is to put
|: yourself (i.e., your own email address) in the To: field.  If you don't
|
|
|That won't do what I want.  That will send a copy of the mail to each
|recipient in the Bcc: field, however, each piece of mail will have the same
|To: field.  I would like the To: field to contain the name of each
|recipient who receives the mail, and only his name, so that it looks as if I
|sent the mail to him alone.
|
|
|
|

Beth Peterson
bethp@fnal
Physics Department

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From: [email-masked] (Rick Troxel)
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 02:44:26 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:

   I'd like to be able to send mail to multiple people, with each one
   receiving the message seemingly addressed to himself alone in the To:
   header.  Is there a way to do this with PINE?

If you are on a Unix host, you could use the shell with another mailer
to accomplish this.  E.g. with csh and BSD Mail, you could do something
like

  % foreach a (`cat address.lst`)
  foreach? Mail -s "Desired Subject" $a < outbound.msg
  foreach? end

Bear in mind that for large lists this could really hog resources.
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