Suppose you have lots of friends and you have their email ids too. And you want to send a mail to every one of them, how do you do it? What’s the big deal, you say. Just select all their ids from your address book and send it. Simple.

But did you realize that when you do it that way all the email ids will be visible to everybody? Not all of your friends would be happy to have their email ids shared with all your friends.

So what is the better way of doing it? The solution is very simple. Instead of putting all the email ids in the ‘To:‘ field, put them in the ‘Bcc:‘ (blind carbon copy) field and in the ‘To:‘ field you can put your own email id.

This way you would have sent the mail to everybody without anybody knowing who else you sent the mail to.

(Thanks Henry Britto)

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