Harvesting Email Addresses
When I receive an email with 200 recipient email addresses in the "To"
field, I often contact the sender telling them to please either set up an email distribution list or put the names in the "BCC" field so that spammers will not harvest them. However, I just tried to harvest the email addresses in Outlook 2000, but I was unable to get the email addresses to copy -- just the recipient's names. Am I correct to be concerned that the visible addresses are easy to harvest? I can double click on each name and see the email address, but I cannot figure out a way to extract them en masse. |
Harvesting Email Addresses
You are right to be concerned. It is not always easy to "harvest" them en masse through the UI, but it's a piece of cake for a little code, which is what a spambot installed on a recipient's computer would be using.
-- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "mcp6453" wrote in message ... When I receive an email with 200 recipient email addresses in the "To" field, I often contact the sender telling them to please either set up an email distribution list or put the names in the "BCC" field so that spammers will not harvest them. However, I just tried to harvest the email addresses in Outlook 2000, but I was unable to get the email addresses to copy -- just the recipient's names. Am I correct to be concerned that the visible addresses are easy to harvest? I can double click on each name and see the email address, but I cannot figure out a way to extract them en masse. |
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