Subject: Send same message many times

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:19:20 +0100 (CET)

Dear pine users!

When I send mail to many friends at a time, I often use the BCC-field, to
avoid spreading mail addresses via To or Bcc. I think that everyone should
be allowed to decide to whom they want their mail address to be known, and
in addition there could be a possible virus spreading risk. In chain
letters or similar, it could also be a problem that people send a copy to
a given address, and thereby spread the addresses to possible spammers.

The drawback with using BCC or LCC, is that some people (e.g. hotmail
users) have spam filters that put bcc-mail in the trash.

What I would like, is a feature that allows me to enter all addresses in a
To-field or "BTo"-field, if you like, and that Pine send all messages
separately, so that each user only see their own address in the To-field,
and optionally a "Copy sent to:" list of names only in the message body.

Is this already on the wish list, or does anyone have other solutions?

Regards,
-- 
Atle Weibell
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From: Nicolas Christin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:25:25 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 [email-masked] wrote:

> What I would like, is a feature that allows me to enter all addresses
> in a To-field or "BTo"-field, if you like, and that Pine send all
> messages separately, so that each user only see their own address in
> the To-field, and optionally a "Copy sent to:" list of names only in
> the message body.
>

Why not just use a simple shell script for that? (using pine in a for
loop over a list of recipients) - it wouldn't give you a "Copy sent to"
field, but the message would appear once for every recipient in your
sent-mail folder.

Not necessarily the most "user-friendly" way of doing what you're asking
for, but that's how I'd do it.

-- 
Nicolas

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From: Stefan Goessling-Reisemann <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:37:45 +0100 (Westeuropäische Normalzeit)

> the To-field, and optionally a "Copy sent to:" list of names only in

But is that not the intended use for the Bcc: field?
Bcc: = Blind carbon copy

When composing, press Ctrl-R in the header section and see the Bcc: field.

Greetings, SGR

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From: Stephen Casner <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 00:43:20 -0800 (PST)

> and optionally a "Copy sent to:" list of names only in the message body.

I've wanted that behavior, too.  The mail tool I used way back in the
1970's would do what I consider to be the right thing: when I put
multiple names in the bcc field, separate copies of the message should
be sent to each recipient showing only that recipient's name in the
bcc line and not the others.  Then the recipient (and the recipient's
spam filter) is not surprised to find a message arriving that is not
addressed to the recipient, and the bcc indicates that the recipient's
address was not exposed to the people on the To line, either.

                                                        -- Steve