Choosing recipients for an attachment in an e-mail

[Ivan Alvarez]

This is a suggestion for future development of Outlook. One funcionality that
will be really nice to have when you send an e-mail to several recipients is
the possibility to choose which one of them should receive any attachment on
the mail. So, i.e. if you're sending a comm to a customer whith some heavy
size info attached regarding your products and you're copying any of your
colleagues for their info most probably those dudes already have that files
and don't make sense to overload their inbox and storage with the same info
again. So if you have the ability to choose which recipient will receive
them you'll be saving time, bandwith and storage among others. Thx!

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[Roady [MVP]]

You'll have to send 2 mails for that since the SMTP protocol itself does not
support your scenario.
What you could do is to configure the internal mail server to drop any
attachments for internal messages.

 

[VanguardLH]

This is a suggestion for future development of Outlook. One funcionality that
will be really nice to have when you send an e-mail to several recipients is
the possibility to choose which one of them should receive any attachment on
the mail. So, i.e. if you're sending a comm to a customer whith some heavy
size info attached regarding your products and you're copying any of your
colleagues for their info most probably those dudes already have that files
and don't make sense to overload their inbox and storage with the same info
again. So if you have the ability to choose which recipient will receive
them you'll be saving time, bandwith and storage among others. Thx!

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Not possible. Not a limitation in any e-mail client. It is a
limitation of the e-mail *protocol* that you are using to send your
e-mails.

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) works by your e-mail client
aggregating a list of recipients from its To, CC, and Bcc *fields*
within its user interface. Those are FIELDS in the e-mail client (which
the client then puts into the header section of the message, except the
Bcc field is not added as a header). Your e-mail client then issues a
RCPT-TO command to the mail server for each recipient. That is followed
by *one* DATA command that contains your message. Attachments don't
float out somewhere in the Internet ether separately of the e-mail.
Attachments are *in* the e-mail. That means the same message sent by
your e-mail client to the mail server using the DATA command is the same
message that gets sent to each recipient that had been specified in the
list of RCPT-TO commands.

The mail server gets told who are the recipients and then gets a single
copy of your message that it then sends to each recipient. So your
message gets sent to all recipients. If you want some recipients to get
a different e-mail (like having different attachments) then you have to
send them a separate e-mail. You'll have to compose the e-mail to send
to one set of recipients and then compose another and DIFFERENT e-mail
to send to a different set of recipients. You are trying to send
different e-mails. Remember that attachments in *in* the body of your
message so having a different set of attachments means you are sending a
different e-mail.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

This is a suggestion for future development of Outlook. One funcionality
that
will be really nice to have when you send an e-mail to several recipients is
the possibility to choose which one of them should receive any attachment on
the mail.

For Internet (SMTP) mail, this would be a ton of work on the mail client end.
It would have to create two completely separate messages. Not a good idea.