Creating "Recipient List Suppressed" Email

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Ed Skinner wrote:

>       I want to send Email to a bunch of folks but don't want them to
> know who the others are. (It's advertising.) I can put all the
> recipients in the BCC list but what can I put as the To: address? Also,

Many use:

To: <Undisclosed Recipients>

> I need to insert a Reply-To
> field in the header (the originator will be me but replies should go to
> someone else). I'd prefer using plain old "mail" (shell command) so I can put
> it in a script but, reading the man pages, I don't see any solution. (But
> maybe I'm just dense.)

Just have the Reply-To: in the header that you write yourself.

( echo "Reply-To: <the@address>" ; echo "Subject: whatever" ; echo ; \
 cat the-email ) | mail ...

If it is a shell script, then I wouldn't use a BCC either. Just send a
different email to each recipient.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/