BCC field in Mail

Hey guys,
When using Bcc in mail, is there a way of getting the recipients email address in the 'to' field of the email they receive?
If i send a mail Bcc'd to numerous people and leave the 'to' field blank, when they receive the message it says it's from me, but to 'blank'. If i put in my own address, the email the receive says its from me to 'me'. I want it so it looks like a normal personal email.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Simon

Thomas, thanks, basically what your saying is what i feared, you need some third party software that is capable of bulk emailing.
Not necessarily. If it's a reasonable list, you could create an Automator action to create and send the e-mails.
Of course, if you've never done this before, you should be aware that most e-mail providers don't like their servers used for sending bulk e-mail and have systems in place to prevent it. Most will reject any messages addressed to too many different addresses, and some (many?) have limits on the number of different addresses you can send to per day. If you can't send the message(s) through your ISP, you'll need not bulk e-mailing software, but a bulk e-mailing service of some kind.

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