Hi,
is it possible to send mails within Servoy leaving the TO section empty?
My goal is to send mailings with the addresses in BCC section only, but if I set the TO section to null, I get an error…
Any ideas?
I think this is not possible. Mostly people send a mail like that to “newsletter@abc.com” or something like that and add all the real recipients to BCC.
Hi Ric,
If I am sending bulk emails out I generally use an internal mail account for the ‘To:’ reference
For example, I will have a mail account called ‘announce@majic.co.uk’ and use this as the ‘To:’ and then add all the recipients into the ‘BCC:’ as you want to.
The email is satisfied that the mail is being sent to a primary location and I will always have a reference of the email sent in the account called ‘announce’
You can set up a variety of internal accounts depending upon the reason for sending the bulk mail.
Ciao
Harry
Filling in the TO: is actually a good idea and will make the mail look less like spam. Why don’t you fill in the TO per user instead of using BCC.
We have a customer doing regular mailshots and have set it up so that only one email document is created but Servoy loops through the foundset inserting indivdual To:'s, sending the Email, and creating a join-file record.
This helps to avoid spam-blocking problems and the join-file ensures that all Contacts are linked to the Mailshot.
May be worth the extra effort as it seems that ISP’s are getting stricter in defining spam and an email without a To: address is an easy target for blacklisting.
Graham Greensall
Worxinfo Ltd