>Normally when you send out a Newsletter, or email to a sensitive list like
>suppliers or customers, you want the To: field of each recipient's email to
>be customized with their name appearing as the only name.    That requires
>special support at your mail server, and I would like to know if Exchange
>implements such a concept maybe as a special type of distribution list, or
>if there are third party applications to support this.
>
>Essentially to customize the distribution, you must custom-construct each
>piece of outgoing mail with a different To: field construction and then send
>it separately.   That is opposed to the approach used by most mailers such
>as Outlook Express that uses one value in the To: field for the name of the
>list, and then SMTP ends up sending that same piece of email to each
>recipient separately.   That's the approach I see in 95% of all mailers and
>mail servers, and it's not what I want at all.
>
>What are my best options?

"Michael Bednarek" <mbATmbednarek.com@BLACKHOLESPAM.NET> wrote in message
news:gpur2391jakktdm3shvtfvsrlpsmbh6hah@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:02:01 -0700, Will wrote in
> microsoft.public.exchange.misc:
>
>>Normally when you send out a Newsletter, or email to a sensitive list like
>>suppliers or customers, you want the To: field of each recipient's email
>>to
>>be customized with their name appearing as the only name.    That requires
>>special support at your mail server, and I would like to know if Exchange
>>implements such a concept maybe as a special type of distribution list, or
>>if there are third party applications to support this.
>>
>>Essentially to customize the distribution, you must custom-construct each
>>piece of outgoing mail with a different To: field construction and then
>>send
>>it separately.   That is opposed to the approach used by most mailers such
>>as Outlook Express that uses one value in the To: field for the name of
>>the
>>list, and then SMTP ends up sending that same piece of email to each
>>recipient separately.   That's the approach I see in 95% of all mailers
>>and
>>mail servers, and it's not what I want at all.
>>
>>What are my best options?
>
> Mailmerge is a function of the client, not of the Exchange server.
>
> AFAIK Mailmerge in Outlook requires Microsoft Word, or VBA code. Other
> SMTP clients, including command line mailers, do it self contained.
>
> A commonly used alternative with Outlook is to put the Distribution List
> into the BCC: field. Note that some servers regard excessively long
> distribution lists as a SPAM indicator.

>Michael Bednarek wrote in message news:gpur2391jakktdm3shvtfvsrlpsmbh6hah@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:02:01 -0700, Will wrote in microsoft.public.exchange.misc:
>>
>>>Normally when you send out a Newsletter, or email to a sensitive list like
>>>suppliers or customers, you want the To: field of each recipient's email to
>>>be customized with their name appearing as the only name.    That requires
>>>special support at your mail server, and I would like to know if Exchange
>>>implements such a concept maybe as a special type of distribution list, or
>>>if there are third party applications to support this.
[snip]
>> Mailmerge is a function of the client, not of the Exchange server.
>>
>> AFAIK Mailmerge in Outlook requires Microsoft Word, or VBA code. Other
>> SMTP clients, including command line mailers, do it self contained.
[snip]
>You are confusing the customization of content inside the *body* of the
>email with customization of the To: field, which is part of the RFC822
>header.
>
>Customization of an RFC822 header is not a traditional mailmerge and is not
>in the scope of what Microsoft Word can or should do.
[snip]