How do I create an Address Book mailing list which will not show everyone's names when sent?
When I send the email I want only each individual address to show for the appropriate recipient -- not all of the names for everyone else to see.
Solution eye eponami
You have to change the To: label in front of the address into Bcc: (Blind Carbon copy). This hides the address for the other recipients. You should do this for all recipients you want hidden.
If you first change To: into Bcc: and add the first address and then add another address, Thunderbird has remembered that your previous address was a Bcc:-address and add the next ones also as Bcc:.
You can also use the Contacts Sidebar (press F9 in the Compose window), select the addresses you want to mail there and click the Add to Bcc:-button.
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Your "specification" suggests that a mail merge would be most suitable. There is a Thunderbird addon that does this.
You can send using a Mailing List and Bcc:, which will (should!) hide addresses, but it also hides all the individual addresses. The message arrives showing whatever was in the To: or Cc: fields, or "undisclosed recipients;" if they were left empty. So a Mailing List isn't going to satisfy your requirement.
Solution eye oponami
You have to change the To: label in front of the address into Bcc: (Blind Carbon copy). This hides the address for the other recipients. You should do this for all recipients you want hidden.
If you first change To: into Bcc: and add the first address and then add another address, Thunderbird has remembered that your previous address was a Bcc:-address and add the next ones also as Bcc:.
You can also use the Contacts Sidebar (press F9 in the Compose window), select the addresses you want to mail there and click the Add to Bcc:-button.
"…each individual address to show for the appropriate recipient…" - Bcc can't do this. :-(
Thank y'all! Appreciate your confirming that Thunderbird is a limited email program, so I shall look elsewhere. Again, thanks.
Well no. This is an example of an XY problem. You want to do X (send personalized email messages) and you have decided that Y (Mailing Lists) are the solution to your problem, so in order to do X you asked how to do Y.
The solution to X is in this case a Mail Merge. There is an addon to do this. So yes, Thunderbird can do this.
I believe there are email programs which incorporate mail merge as a built in function rather than doing it via a supplementary addon, but you may fail to discover such a feature if you continue looking for it as a function of a Mailing List, rather than embracing the concept of Mail Merge.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/mail-merge/
You can use a Mailing List to manage your batches, but you'll need another addon to explode the Mailing List to expose its member Contacts. A Mailing List is inherently unsuited to Mail Merge because its job is to hide addressees whereas you need them to be accessible.