How to send an undisclosed email in gmail

Q: How do I send a mass email and hide recipients in Gmail?

Click on the BCC field in the top section of the draft window. Also called blind carbon copy, you can input every recipients email address into this Gmail field, divided by commas. Performing this step allows you to hide each address fully. Compose your message and press the Send button.

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How do I send a mass email and hide recipients in Gmail?
How do I send an email without disclosing recipients?
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How do I send an email to multiple recipients without them knowing?

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For privacy reasons, you may want to send an email to someone, but not let them see who else you sent it to, or vice versa. These instructions are suited to people using Hotmail.

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Open 'Contacts', and make a new entry. Write "Undisclosed" (not including the quotation marks) in the First Name line, and "Recipients" in the surname line.
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If your email program requires that at least one email address be listed in the "to" field, write your own email address in that line. (Gmail does not require that.) Otherwise, leave it blank. (Unless there is a recipient of your email that you'd like everyone to see.)
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In some email programs, you'll need to change "Display as" to read "Undisclosed Recipients. Write Undisclosed Recipients or select it when the box pops up.
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Press 'Show Cc and Bcc' and type all the addresses of the people you would like to send an email to in the Bcc line. This stands for "blind carbon copy" and will send a copy of your email to every address listed, but will not display their email address to the other recipients.
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Finish composing your email and press "send" when you're completed!

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The above steps should work on most other email services, but there is no guarantee.
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The Undisclosed Recipients message will be useless if you write "Dear XXX, ZZZ," etc. or mention their names in the letter!
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How do I send a mass email and hide recipients in Gmail?

Click on the "BCC" field in the top section of the draft window. Also called blind carbon copy, you can input every recipient's email address into this Gmail field, divided by commas. Performing this step allows you to hide each address fully. Compose your message and press the "Send" button.

How do I send an email without disclosing recipients?

BCC – Undisclosed Recipients Create the email and then start to input the email addresses you want to send it to in the BCC. The BCC stands for Blind Carbon Copy. That means no one can see who the email is going to. When you send the message, it will be sent to all of the people in your BCC.

To use Bcc on your Mac or PC:.

Begin composing an email by clicking the "+ Compose" button in the top-right. ... .

Click "Recipients" at the top of the email box, and then click "Bcc" on the right side..

Enter the email addresses you want to Bcc to. ... .

Type out your email, adding any links and attachments..

How do I send an email to multiple recipients without them knowing?

The BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) method is the most common approach to sending emails to multiple recipients without showing all the email addresses. Emailing to multiple recipients using the BCC feature hides other recipients from the recipient, making it look like he is the sole recipient of the email. 3.