Instead of emailing 100 people using "BCC", is there a service that emails indiv?

[GoodEnough]

I need to email 100 people using "BCC"
with the To: field filed with my own addr.
But, BCC often goes to the "spam/junk" folder.

So, I could email each person directly, but that will take forver.

Is there a service that parses a list of emails,
and automates emails individually?
Or one that simulates BCC?

ie: It emails each of the 100 people, but in the TO: it's my email,
so they think it was a BCC (but it wasn't actually a BCC)

Anyone know what I am getting at?
I want to bulk BCC, but don't it to end up want the "spam/junk" folder

 

[esun]

Look up mail merge. There are many such options (I use https://code.google.com/p/valmerge/).

 

[GoodEnough]

Is there mail merge for Microsoft Hotmail/Live?
Can I do it from another addr and use the reply-to field?

 

[SecurityTheatre]

Is there mail merge for Microsoft Hotmail/Live?
Can I do it from another addr and use the reply-to field?

No.

Hotmail does not want you to send blind copies to 100 people.

They usually call that SPAM and may remove your account for doing it.

You might check out MailChimp.

 

[BrightCandle]

You can actually use OpenOffice to do a mail merge if you like. It needs a pop3/smtp account in order to do it but it can certainly be done. I haven't had any major problems doing it through a gmail account to about 20 people at a time, but if you do a lot you are going to get your account locked pretty quick.

 

[GoodEnough]

So, if not mail merge, what is the preferred method for emailing 100 people an annoucement without putting them all into the "TO" field, but not doing BCC b/c of spam filters?

 

[alkemyst]

Why is how to SPAM people in HT?

 

[silverpig]

Why is how to SPAM people in HT?

OP wants to email 100 people and BCC them. Sounds like wedding stuff? Or revenge porn. Wedding stuff or revenge porn.

 

[glugglug]

OP wants to email 100 people and BCC them. Sounds like wedding stuff? Or revenge porn. Wedding stuff or revenge porn.

Or just spam. Wedding stuff or revenge porn wouldn't be so concerned about CC/TO vs. BCC.

 

[el-Capitan]

We quote our clients and our competitors via bcc. Some of our lists have 500 recipients. They all do the same, so our spam filters are tuned to allowing them in. No problem.

 

[GoodEnough]

It's an invitation, but not a wedding one.
So, what's the final verdict for the easiest way to email 100 people, keep the list private, and not end up in "junk/bulk"

 

[alkemyst]

Easiest is to just do 100 emails manually.

You can do a simple mail merge as well.

I am not sure why you are wanting the "To:" field to be you though...that's just creepy/stalkerish/skip tracing/etc and the mail protocol doesn't like it.

You could have sent a 100 emails manually via copy and paste easily.

I am thinking you are looking to spam or worse.

You don't need to have a list. Sending someone an email with the wrong To: address gets you in a Spam folder.

 

[GoodEnough]

I would PREFER if TO just said the recipient,
but to do the BCC style bulk mail,
convention is to generally put yourself in the TO field.

It's not a "simple" mail merge when no one can identify a tool that does it with Hotmail.
Unless I need to hire a programmer for $100/hr...

No, I am not doing it manually.
How the heck are there not 100's of websites that already do this?
Mind blown. Mail merge is some 1980s Commodore 64 sh/t

 

[alkemyst]

I would PREFER if TO just said the recipient,
but to do the BCC style bulk mail,
convention is to generally put yourself in the TO field.

It's not a "simple" mail merge when no one can identify a tool that does it with Hotmail.
Unless I need to hire a programmer for $100/hr...

No, I am not doing it manually.
How the heck are there not 100's of websites that already do this?
Mind blown. Mail merge is some 1980s Commodore 64 sh/t

It's pretty easy to send 100 or more emails with the proper recipient as the TO

Hotmail is your problem.

Download an email client and set the upload on your machine.

 

[GoodEnough]

What is "set the upload"?
Do you mean mail merge?

Does the upload work with Windows Live PC client?
Is "mail merge" some sort of menu option in popular clients?

 

[alkemyst]

dude you could have sent those 100 emails already.

I don't know what you want.

 

[GoodEnough]

What do I want?

1) I want to email 100 people at once.
2) I don't want to show all 100 people in the TO field (b/c people start doing REPLY ALL)
3) I can't use BCC, b/c it ends up in the junk/spam folder.

Period. It's that simple.

People do this millions of times a day.
Am I the first person to need this?
How the F is there not some sort of stupid website with two textfields that does this as a free service?

 

[alkemyst]

What do I want?

1) I want to email 100 people at once.
2) I don't want to show all 100 people in the TO field (b/c people start doing REPLY ALL)
3) I can't use BCC, b/c it ends up in the junk/spam folder.

Period. It's that simple.

People do this millions of times a day.
Am I the first person to need this?
How the F is there not some sort of stupid website with two textfields that does this as a free service?

1) no one likes spammers

2) most don't like retards.

you are either 1 or 2 now.

 

[GoodEnough]

Moron, I said it's an mass invitation, not F'ing spam.
If I were a spammer promoting a bullshit business, you think I'd be on a tech forum asking how to spam?
I'd be hiring a consultant to do my spamming, you idiot.

 

[glugglug]

I'm pretty sure you can just do a mail merge using Outlook talking to hotmail. But hotmail is going to figure out that you are spamming.

It used to be possible to have an e-mail client that did the DNS lookup for each recipient to deliver it directly to the appropriate mail server. But since the spammers have been out of hand about 2 decades now, pretty much everybody does a reverse DNS lookup to confirm you really are sending through the claimed "sender"s SMTP server or requires some kind of additional authentication.

Lots of people use BCC without hitting spam filters. Maybe you are hitting the spam filter because you are spamming.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Constant Contact

 

[SecurityTheatre]

What do I want?

1) I want to email 100 people at once.
2) I don't want to show all 100 people in the TO field (b/c people start doing REPLY ALL)
3) I can't use BCC, b/c it ends up in the junk/spam folder.

Period. It's that simple.

People do this millions of times a day.
Am I the first person to need this?
How the F is there not some sort of stupid website with two textfields that does this as a free service?

No, such a thing probably does not exist, because it would be where all of the world's SPAM came from. How do you not realize that?

There are PAID services that do this. Businesses that do this PAY for this service. MailChimp is a common one, so is ConstantContact. Both COST MONEY to use.

To do it free, you do a mail merge in some software. Outlook can do it in combination with lists from Excel, but it's not terribly easy so if you're only every going to do it once, it's faster to just type in 100 names.

Also, you realize that Hotmail DOES NOT WANT people to send 100 messages. It's blocked for a reason. Also, most SPAM gateways block mass mailings.


Don't know what to tell you bro.

If you could just sign up with some free service in 30 seconds and send emails to 100 people ad nauseum, it would be a massive bummer for the world. I'm glad it doesn't exist.

As a side effect, people in your situation are SOL.

Sorry.



So lets try something.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=send+bulk+invitation+emails


The first result might do something for you. I guess it will send 100 messages for free. No idea any more about it. It looks like it's from some foreign jurisdiction, so download at your own discretion.

 

[SecurityTheatre]

Lots of people use BCC without hitting spam filters. Maybe you are hitting the spam filter because you are spamming.

Generally putting down more than 10-20 BCC addresses causes the service to block you.

Also, using BCC with your own name as the "To" field causes some SPAM services to block you.

The only reliable way to send email is with a single or a few names in the To: and CC: field, but this often takes effort.

 

[alkemyst]

Moron, I said it's an mass invitation, not F'ing spam.
If I were a spammer promoting a bullshit business, you think I'd be on a tech forum asking how to spam?
I'd be hiring a consultant to do my spamming, you idiot.

Wow bro, this is WAY against what flies here.

We have all told you ad nauseum what you need to do and why it doesn't work the way you want it to.

You could have easily sent 100 emails even with attachments in the amount of time you have spent trying to ask the same question over and over hoping for a different answer.

However; yes to spammers and hackers do turn to forums for answers.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Wow bro, this is WAY against what flies here.

We have all told you ad nauseum what you need to do and why it doesn't work the way you want it to.

You could have easily sent 100 emails even with attachments in the amount of time you have spent trying to ask the same question over and over hoping for a different answer.

However; yes to spammers and hackers do turn to forums for answers.

OP doesn't want honest advice. Either attention, or just what he wants to hear. See his other thread here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2269330