Feature request: Broadcast messages

[webratte]

Sometimes I have to send a message or a file to more recipients.

Currently I have to send many messages with the same content or I have to create a group.

My idea is:

• Add a item in the contact list “Broadcast list” (next to “new group”).
• Let choose some recipients (similar to group creation).
• Now put all the addresses into the “BCC field” (not into the “To field” as in "group creation).

This way I can send one message to many people without publish all addresses to all recipients.

You know this from regular mail ;-)

This feature could fix a part of: https://github.com/open-xchange/ox-coi/issues/193

Because this feature could be used as a Newsletter function without leak mail addresses.

[robert-virkus]

Makes definitely sense.
As a side node: we also think about "Stories" which work in a very similar fashion, i.e. you can share news bits with groups of people like "friends", "family", "work", etc. Recipients would, however, not consume this in a group, but in a dedicated view where story updates from different people are combined.