Instant BCC

How to introduce people by email without getting replied to

Today, Ashley had a problem:

Now, it would be possible to build a little app to do this easily enough; email can be sent from a ‘do not reply’ type address, with you BCC’d, but Ashley wants this in her email client, which is gmail. Fortunately there is a way:

Go to the Settings > Accounts and Import page

In the ‘Send Mail as:’ section, click ‘Add another email address you own’

In the popup, put BCC after your name and +bcc after your email address

Uncheck ‘Treat as an alias’

Set the Reply-to address to one that blackholes messages (I used that facebook one)

Click ‘Next Step’ and you’re done.

Now, when you want to send a BCC mail:

Click Compose as usual.

Choose the BCC address from the pop-down

Address people as usual, and send

And if, like Rick, you want this on by default, make it your default address.