In Entourage v.10.1.6, the "Send Now" button is dimmed, not accessible,
when trying to send just to Bcc recipients. However, Entourage v.11.1.0
will allow this. Is there a fix for this issue for version 10.1.6 and/or
is there an option I'm overlooking? I'd appreciate any assistance and
thanks in advance.

Re: Can't send to just Bcc by Barry

Barry
Tue Jan 25 08:48:52 CST 2005

On 25/1/05 2:32 pm, in article 10vcm3noe6pud5b@corp.supernews.com,
"Scificajun" <scificajun@yahoo.com> wrote:

> In Entourage v.10.1.6, the "Send Now" button is dimmed, not accessible,
> when trying to send just to Bcc recipients. However, Entourage v.11.1.0
> will allow this. Is there a fix for this issue for version 10.1.6 and/or
> is there an option I'm overlooking? I'd appreciate any assistance and
> thanks in advance.

Oh, wow they listened!

This has been a longstanding cause for complaint - that Entourage wouldn't
allow the sending of BCC only messages. They obviously listened and
implemented that feature without telling anyone.

Pre-11 your only option was to put your name (or a non-existent name) in the
to or CC fields. To hide this you could put the address in a group and
deselect the 'show group members' option. Then, only the group name would
show in the mail message for the recipient, and the name could be anything
your chose.

--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>


Re: Can't send to just Bcc by Jim

Jim
Tue Jan 25 15:56:27 CST 2005

Just out of curiosity, why would you ever want to do that???


On 1/25/05 9:48 AM, in article BE1C0CD4.3A8EB%barry@mvps.org.INVALID, "Barry
Wainwright" <barry@mvps.org.INVALID> wrote:

> On 25/1/05 2:32 pm, in article 10vcm3noe6pud5b@corp.supernews.com,
> "Scificajun" <scificajun@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> In Entourage v.10.1.6, the "Send Now" button is dimmed, not accessible,
>> when trying to send just to Bcc recipients. However, Entourage v.11.1.0
>> will allow this. Is there a fix for this issue for version 10.1.6 and/or
>> is there an option I'm overlooking? I'd appreciate any assistance and
>> thanks in advance.
>
> Oh, wow they listened!
>
> This has been a longstanding cause for complaint - that Entourage wouldn't
> allow the sending of BCC only messages. They obviously listened and
> implemented that feature without telling anyone.
>
> Pre-11 your only option was to put your name (or a non-existent name) in the
> to or CC fields. To hide this you could put the address in a group and
> deselect the 'show group members' option. Then, only the group name would
> show in the mail message for the recipient, and the name could be anything
> your chose.


Re: Can't send to just Bcc by Barry

Barry
Wed Jan 26 07:55:10 CST 2005

Do what? Send a BCC only email? If I want to send a general announcement to
a lot of unrelated people I will routinely put them all in the BCC field so
as not to distribute their email addresses to each other. Having your own
(or even a dud) mail address in the 'to' field makes you mail look more like
spam when it arrives.

--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>


> From: Jim Knotts <jknotts@jckassoc.com>
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:56:27 -0500
> Subject: Re: Can't send to just Bcc
>
> Just out of curiosity, why would you ever want to do that???
>
>
> On 1/25/05 9:48 AM, in article BE1C0CD4.3A8EB%barry@mvps.org.INVALID, "Barry
> Wainwright" <barry@mvps.org.INVALID> wrote:
>
>> On 25/1/05 2:32 pm, in article 10vcm3noe6pud5b@corp.supernews.com,
>> "Scificajun" <scificajun@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In Entourage v.10.1.6, the "Send Now" button is dimmed, not accessible,
>>> when trying to send just to Bcc recipients. However, Entourage v.11.1.0
>>> will allow this. Is there a fix for this issue for version 10.1.6 and/or
>>> is there an option I'm overlooking? I'd appreciate any assistance and
>>> thanks in advance.
>>
>> Oh, wow they listened!
>>
>> This has been a longstanding cause for complaint - that Entourage wouldn't
>> allow the sending of BCC only messages. They obviously listened and
>> implemented that feature without telling anyone.
>>
>> Pre-11 your only option was to put your name (or a non-existent name) in the
>> to or CC fields. To hide this you could put the address in a group and
>> deselect the 'show group members' option. Then, only the group name would
>> show in the mail message for the recipient, and the name could be anything
>> your chose.
>


Re: Can't send to just Bcc by Scificajun

Scificajun
Wed Jan 26 09:08:08 CST 2005

Jim Knotts <jknotts@jckassoc.com> wrote in
news:BE1C2ABB.78D%jknotts@jckassoc.com:

> Just out of curiosity, why would you ever want to do that???
>
>
> On 1/25/05 9:48 AM, in article BE1C0CD4.3A8EB%barry@mvps.org.INVALID,
> "Barry Wainwright" <barry@mvps.org.INVALID> wrote:
>
>> On 25/1/05 2:32 pm, in article 10vcm3noe6pud5b@corp.supernews.com,
>> "Scificajun" <scificajun@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In Entourage v.10.1.6, the "Send Now" button is dimmed, not
>>> accessible, when trying to send just to Bcc recipients. However,
>>> Entourage v.11.1.0 will allow this. Is there a fix for this issue
>>> for version 10.1.6 and/or is there an option I'm overlooking? I'd
>>> appreciate any assistance and thanks in advance.
>>
>> Oh, wow they listened!
>>
>> This has been a longstanding cause for complaint - that Entourage
>> wouldn't allow the sending of BCC only messages. They obviously
>> listened and implemented that feature without telling anyone.
>>
>> Pre-11 your only option was to put your name (or a non-existent name)
>> in the to or CC fields. To hide this you could put the address in a
>> group and deselect the 'show group members' option. Then, only the
>> group name would show in the mail message for the recipient, and the
>> name could be anything your chose.
>

Jim,

Thanks for the response and answer.