Why not just have an easy button that you can click saying Do Not Allow Reply All?
I know that there are some ways you can limit reply-all availability, like in the URL linked here. But there’s a note: If recipients open this email in other mail applications except Microsoft Outlook, such as opening on web page via web mailbox, they can reply all this email.
I’m semi-tech savvy but I’m no programmer. It feels like it should be easy to do, so either I’m totally wrong or email services are really missing out on a great thing they could do.
The way to do this is to use a mailing list that only allows a limited number of people to send emails to it. You could do this automatically when someone clicked a “Prohibit Reply All” button, but such a feature is unnecessary if you use mailing lists configured that way by default.
That basically means sending the same email over and over but with one recipient per email
At my work we have something in place that prevents somebody from sending to more than 50 recipients but we control our own mail servers and know how many people are in the largest department
Basically, things like this exist but aren’t necessarily intuitive to set up and defaults would require contextual knowledge
Why?
There’s a special hell for everyone sharing tips to stop people from reply all’ing
Why? BCC is the solution and has been part of email since at least 1990. I’m not condoning a dogpile on OP, but this is a solved problem.
This is the answer, bbc is the solution.
To get less “tech inclined” people to use the bbc feature is another story.
Sending a email to the whole office from HR, bbc all recipients. Then recipients can only reply to HR, and not 600 plus staff members, into a email chain that last all day asking people to stop replying all, while replying all at the same time.
So are you directly supplying the bbc or did you hire someone?
What’s so technical about working with a bbc? I mean they’re big but not that different from a regular c.
You want to bbc over 600 people? You’re going to need people working in shifts. I don’t think it could be done all at once.
You want the bbcs to last all day? Jesus that’s a hell of an ask. I hope you’re hiring professionals.
What’s email got to do with bbc?
