Sending Email to Multiple Recipients

To send an email to more than one recipient at the same time you can either add the recipients to a mail group and send the email to the group or select all the required recipients individually.

If you select individual recipients then you will see the email addresses separated by a semi-colon. When sending to a group the individual addresses are substituted before the email is sent.

The problem with sending an email this way is that if one of the email addresses in invalid the entire message gets rejected and you have to extract the bad email and send again.

 When you resend it is possible that another bad email is encountered and you have to repeat the process.

Therefore I always place all "unverified email contacts" in a new separate folder and once I have successfully sent to those contacts I then add them to the main mailing list group or folder.

To, cc or Bcc

If you are sending to a confidential list/group, and/or a very large group, then you always send using the bcc line. (see email bcc). Use the to or cc line for multiple contacts only when you want the email recipients to know who else has received the message.