I want to send one email from the same alias to multiple recipients, ie a group of people. Is that possible with SimpleLogin? If so, how?
On a related note, I heard it is possible with Addy, which is something that might make me switch.
Do you mean that if an alias gets an email, that email gets forwarded to multiple people? If so, I guess technically yes, via attaching multiple mailboxes to the same alias.
You would just create a reverse alias for each person in that group. This would be kind of a pain depending on the size of the group though.
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I think you misunderstand me. I want to use an alias (janedoe@aleas.com) to send ONE email to multiple recipients (bob@gmail.com + julie@yahoo.com + mary@hotmail.com)
Is that possible?
It’s not a large group. 3 to 5 recipients max.
Let’s say there are 5 recipients. Wouldn’t creating a reverse alias for each mean I would have to send 5 separate emails?
The last character of a reverse alias is >.
Wouldn’t I have to add a comma after it to add the other recipients?
Do people know if this actually works? And do the recipients see each other’s addresses? It’s important that they do, because I’m addressing multiple people by name in the email.
No. You create the reverse alias’ in SL (through the contact parts of the alias you are sending from) and then copy those reverse alias’ into the CC field of your email.
reverse aliases work.
not sure on that one.
I know reverse aliases work. I use them regularly. But always with a single recipient. I will test multiple recipients.
However, there is something else I realized and am worried about.
Even if I am able to send one email to multiple recipients via multiple reverse aliases. What happens when one or more of the recipients replies ot the group.
Can I just reply to the reply, like I usually do when it’s a single recipient, or will the reverse aliases stop working at that point?
Technically it will be 5 different emails sending each to one person. So I don’t think it will get grouped.
UPDATE: GROUP E-MAILS WORK…BUT
So I tested it. I created an alias and sent a single email to a group of 3 recipients via reverse aliases. All recipients successfully received the e-mail. My real address was not revealed, and the addresses of the recipients were visible to all.
Moreover, all recipients were able to reply to the group, and my real address was not exposed.
There was a slight hitch when I replied to all the replies with my alias. It worked fine. But I did get the following alert from SL:
Email sent to username@passinbox.com from its own mailbox username@mailfence.com
An email was sent to your alias username@passinbox.com from its own username@mailfence.com
SimpleLogin doesn’t send this email back to your mailbox, as it would be refused or hidden anyway by your email service.
So no worries, there’s nothing you need to do
I suspect this happened because my reply to the group email was after multiple replies from the other parties (A, B, & C) had already been sent.
I am the original sender of the group email, but I was the last to reply in the reply chain. A replied first, and when they did, I (my alias) was considered the primary recipient, and everyone else was CC’d.
Then B replied to A’s reply. When B replies, A is considered the primary recipient, and everybody else is CC’d, including, my alias. When C replied to B’s response, B is considered the primary recipient, and everybody else is CC’d.
Because I replied last, and I am not the primary recipient of the last reply by C, my reply for some reason includes my alias as a recipient, so SL think I’m sending an email from my alias to my alias. Hence, the alert.
For clarity, everybody in this chain is clicking reply all.
TL;DR: Sending group e-mails works, but if you get multiple replies, and then respond to those replies, you might get alerts saying you tried to send an email from your alias to your alias. There’s nothing you can do about that, but it works!
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