Quoth Brian Salter-Duke on Tuesday, 27 July 2010:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:36:44AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > Everyone know this when you get an email from someone and he is  
> > disclosing his whole (Outlook) addressbook to the
> > recipients. Often this is an interesting field for social research :)  
> > but that left aside, I would like avoid this in a case now when I'm  
> > about to send an
> > information about an upcoming event to a list of about 100 users.
> >
> > Instead of going through a for i in `cat users`do mutt ... $i done loop  
> > I could make an alias of these users, but how do I tell to
> > hide the 100 users and only show up the one addressee plus a note that  
> > the email went to a group of undisclosed users?
> 
> Put the alias in the Bcc: line and yourself in the To: line.

Make sure you have

set write_bcc=no

in your .muttrc, or the Bcc header will be included in the message.

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