Use only bcc field as a send to option when sending email

[Autosys]

Hi there,

I was wondering if there was a way to remove the to: and cc: fields in Lotus Notes (Domino 5.0.8) and only use the bcc field with the bcc: functionality.

I'm fairly new to Domino Scripting and was wondering if someone would be kind enough to please provide a code snippet (if this is possible at all).

Thanks very much!

S

 

[pmonett]

If you are new to Domino design, the last thing you want to do is customize the mail template.
Notes mail is one of the most complex and script-heavy applications that exists in the Notes world. I have over ten years of experience in the field myself, and whenever someone asks me for a "simple" change in the mail, I approach the subject with extreme caution. It is terribly simple to break something in the mail template.

Now that I have hopefully scared you enough, let us talk about the objectives of your idea. You want to remove SendTo and CopyTo so that people can only BCC. Do you want to do that only for mail going out, or for internal and external mail ? Do you want to impose that for all mail, or just for mail sent to more than one person ?

Most importantly, what is the requirement for this change ? Is it just to ensure that people do not send mailing lists where everyone can see everyone else's address ?
If so, maybe it would be a better idea to develop a specific mailing list application instead of taking the risk of breaking mail file functionality.

Pascal.

 

[Autosys]

Thanks for that! I totally agree with what you are saying, the company in question has unfortunately made a lot of developers redundant and this "fix" or break as you can call it needs to be implemented as soon as possible.

The goal is to change the mail template so that certain users can't use the SendTo or CopyTo field. These people work with extrememly sensitive data - a mistake was made where somebody accidentaly put a sensitive email in the To: field and there was hell for months. Emails from this team should never display the recipients names. I guess if the email was only sent to one person then it doesn't really matter.

I started to have a look at the memo's forms by trying things like copying the bcc button's code into the To: button etc but couldn't really figure out which other forms and properties I had to change. I'm alright with VB/Unix so I'm quite familiar with scripting etc but Domino looks like a bit of a beast. This needs to be done for mail going out as well as internal mail.

I also tried to change the AltSendTo's and AltBlindCopyTo's properties but need to spend a bit more time in figuring out what else needs to change .... there are quite a few forms hey - I appreciate your feedback and you absolutely have the right to be concerned of what I'm trying to do here, time is just quite a big issue.

Thanks a lot!
S