'BCC' Email Messages Appearing in Inbox

[codingforum_]

Hi all, i'm a new member here and is trying to figure out a way to a problem. I think many will know that email messages sent in the 'BCC' field will appear in the Junk/Spam Mail folder in the receipients. Is there any way to create any scripts such that mails sent in 'BCC' field will not appear in the Junk Folders and appear in the 'Inbox' instead?

I'll really appreciate any help given.

[felgall]

Change the junk mail settings in your email program so that mail that does not contain your address in the TO or CC field is not automatically considered to be JUNK.

[codingforum_]

i would have love it to be so simple. But i am doing this such that when i mass mail to other people through BCC, it won't appear in their Junk Mail folder and in their Inbox instead. Any other ways to do it?

I tried your method anyway felgall, but it says that i have to switch to 'Cached Exchange Mode' to use the filters. I'm using Microsoft Outlook by the way.

[plasterx]

Are you using MS Outlook 2003? I am but I never used CEM so i don't know much. But i got these from the manual,not sure if this is what you are looking for but since you mentioned that you have to configure the CEM to access the filters, I thought this might be of help:

To enable or disable Cached Exchange Mode, follow these directions:

1.In Outlook, from the Tools menu, select Email Accounts... .

2.In the window that opens, under "Email", make sure the radio button next to View or change existing email accounts is selected, then click Next.

3.Highlight your Exchange server account, then click Change... .

4.To turn on Cached Exchange Mode, under "Microsoft Exchange Server:", check the box next to Cached Exchange Mode. To turn it off, remove the checkmark from the box. Click Next, and in the window that opens, click OK.

5.Click Finish. You must restart Outlook for the change to take effect.

Hope it works!

[codingforum_]

Thanks for the info. I managed to change it to cached exchange. But the mail still goes to the Junk Mail folder when i sent it through BCC. Have i missed out on anything or have i applied the settings wrongly ?

[plasterx]

Hmm..I'm not really sure about the settings that you are able to access and change within the CEM but based on what you said,i supposed it's because your recipients do not have your email address in their list of contacts and hence recognize your mail as junk? Then again,were you able to change a particular setting in the CEM to hide your email from the recipients,such that they won't be able to see your address? Because if that setting could be changed,your mail will appear in the inbox.

I tested it out on my Outlook just now,using BCC to send to a few of my colleagues. Appeared that my mail landed in their inbox, i guess it's because they have my email address in their list. Not sure if that's the reason though, you could try it. I've got some MS Outlook people here so if you've got questions,i could try to help .

Good luck with it!

[codingforum_]

Ya. I have been mass mailing(spam .. haha .. work requires me to) to people i don't know. That's why they won't have my email address and ends up in Junk Mail when i BCC them. I have to BCC to prevent them from knowing i'm mass mailing. But it will end up in the Junk Mail instead. Therefore i gotta think of a way to BCC, yet end up in the Inbox.

[plasterx]

Haha..From the looks of it i guess the only way is to hide your email address when you send your mail out, but like i mentioned earlier i have no idea if you are able to configure that in your CEM settings. If you could that would most probably work,i would say. Did you explore the CEM settings? I'm hoping there could be one that allows you to hide your email add.

[codingforum_]

I'm trying to find now, but to no avail. Maybe i can't find it or wat. Haiz.

[codingforum_]

I'm trying to find now, but to no avail. Maybe i can't find it or wat. Haiz. Anyway thanks for your many info.

[plasterx]

No worries there. Hope we didn't sound like we were advocating spam =) By the way keep me posted if you ever find a solution to that yea? Could be of some use later.

Do re-visit CodingForums if you have questions!

[felgall]

What emails go to the junk folder is determined by each individual recipient based on the junk filter settings in their own email program. The best you can do is to tell them when they first request to receive these emails that they should change their settings to allow emails from your particular sending address.

[codingforum_]

Thanks for all the comments and information. I guess i got to go find some scripts or do some programming to enable the sending of mails individually in the 'TO' field from a large number of email addresses. Any information on that will be greatly appreciated. Any information on how to program scripts that can recognise 'BCC' as inbox will be helpful too.

[plasterx]

I just checked. Good news is that you don't have to write some scripts or develop a programme that enables you get your mail into the recipients' inbox. Whether you send to the recipients using the "To:" field or the "BCC" field, they will still recognize your mail as Junk if they do not have your email address in their list (which is what i presume).

The way to get around this is that there is a mass mailing software (i'm not sure about the exact name,will let you know after i've asked one of my colleagues who will be back quite soon) that allows you to change your email address to allow it to appear in the recipients' inbox instead of Junk folder. What happens is that the mailing software allows you to change your email add to something else.

Example:
yourname@yourcompany.com, you can change it to yourname@abcdefg.com and after you have changed it, it will end up in their inbox.

Though i don't know why the 1st theory mentioned above doesn't seem to apply here, but well i was told that after changing your email add it'll work. Just to let you know there's such a software available. Will let you know the name of it later yeap !

[codingforum_]

oh thanks, that will be great. But i don't understand why must the email address be changed before it will appear in the Inbox. Can't i just use the original email address?

[plasterx]

Yea,that puzzles me too,which is why i said i don't know why the 1st theory doesn't apply . Because fact is,if the recipients don't have you in their contact list, no matter what email address you use to send out to them,it will fall into their junk mail box.

Unless well of course they know that you're often sending advertising emails and have filtered your address (name@company.com) in their junk mail. So if you change it to name@abc.com it'd probably end up in their inbox? But that's just an assumption that they had filtered your company email into their junk. Otherwise,i'm not sure how the principle works. But i'll check that out yea, get back to you pretty soon with the software name.

[plasterx]

hey there, i've got the name of that software. It's called Mach5. You could try to search on Google. =)

[rmedek]

Am I the only one here who is thinking the reasoning behind these posts is for you guys to figure out how to circumvent my filtering to prevent spam from companies like yours?

I'm sorry, but you're mass emailing people you don't know. Your emails are being filtered into their "junk" email folder. And you want to know how to get around that. There's something inherently wrong here… :rolleyes:

[codingforum_]

erm sorry if i have offended you in any way. But this is my job, not what i like or wish to do. Just to clarify, we do have a database that comprises of people who subscribe to our service. We do not just mail anyone. I'm just trying to make it such that mails sent to them from us will end up in their Inbox instead of their Junk Mail folders because they may not have added our email address to their contact list.

[plasterx]

yeps,i agree with codingforum_. It's not that we're advocating spam mail but somehow, there're still softwares out there that enables people to conduct their mass email marketing. Just that this issue on getting around spam mail might be a little sensitive. anyway codingforum_ you could visit www.mach5.com for more information.

i guess since your mail ends up in their spam/junk box it means that they deliberately filtered mails from your company as junk mail as they don't wish to receive them. but i do understand that you're still trying to reach out to them,and probably the only way is to change your email so that it appears in their inbox like i mentioned earlier you@company.com to you@somethingelse.com, which is what i was told mach5 could do.

you could go check it out,there're trial versions.. =)