Personalize E-Mail Messages With BCC This

E-Mails can be send to one or multiple users. A problem arises when sending out mails to multiple users as there is no way of personalizing emails for individual recipients except for using scripts that need to be added to the email. (Thunderbird can for instance do that with the mass mail and personal mail add-ons). It is for instance common courtesy to address each recipient with their name which is impossible to do without scripting.

But that process is rather complicated and time consuming. BCC This is a plugin for Microsoft Outlook that offers an ingenious way of personalizing email messages that are send out to multiple recipients.

The Outlook plugin basically allows a user to add custom text to selected recipients. The plugin is in no way as sophisticated as the Thunderbird add-ons mentioned above but it can be used to add textual information that only some recipients will receive.

It would have been nice if BCC This allowed to add messages to different recipients but this is as of now not possible. The add-on is therefor unsuitable for mass mailings but ideal for conversations in a work environment with only a few recipients.

BCC This adds a toolbar at the bottom of the message writing window in Outlook. This toolbar can be minimized whenever it is not needed to save screen estate. Recipients can read the email messages normally while BCC This offers the means to view the messages how they have been send out on the sender’s system.

BCC This is currently offered as a free beta version not only for Outlook but also for Twitter and Blackberries. No compatibility information are given on the developer’s website.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Saturday February 6, 2010 -
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