Regarding winmail.dat attachments: I just ignore them.

I have deciphered a few early on, both company-internal and from outside sources, and concluded that their content was too trivial to bother. In many instances I had a plain text version already in the body of the message anyway.
Life is good!

What about File Juicer.

Though I don't use Entourage at home any more, there's a great program out there called Entourage Email Archive. It even comes with a Filemaker Pro template so that you can store your archived email in a way that lets you access them via Filemaker pro (if you have it). Pretty slick little program.

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Eric

There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence. - Will Rogers

Assuming you're using Mail.app, click on the View Menu and choose Bcc Address Field. In the To Field of your message put your email address. In the Bcc Field put the recipient's email address(es) that you would like to hide.

If you know you're going to be sending to the same group of people, then just create a group with the addresses you want in that group. Both Mail and Entourage allow you to send to a group without revealing the individual members of the group.

I would just like to chip in with a word of warning re "old" email accounts.
BEWARE letting them sit dormant. isp's often prune them every 1-3 months, so you will lose them forever.
Once this happens you will lose access to the address, and in my experience isp's will not re-instate them.
This usually happens to old "dial up" accounts, and requires "dialing up" to the internet every few weeks/months using said account to keep it active.
Also for mail archiving - mbox is ok, but it's not very practicle, as to access the mail once it's archived, you have to reload/re-instate the mbox files to view even 1 message.
Mail Steward is a better solution for me, it archives EVERYTHING and it's in a searchable database. i can then delete mail over a year old with no fear of losing any messages should i need it in the future.
The best email solution for most users IMHO is google mail. it's reliable, has heaps of space, and it's free!
Besides if you mostly use it within a mail client you don't get any ads! plus 6gb of space, so you leave the mail on the server, then you can always log in to webmail if you are away from your mac toys! full pop + imap support.
what's not to like?

Yes, I thought of that and of course it works. But the real problem is that address book only give two options "to" and "cc" but not "Bcc". The result is that one must type or drag items one at a time into the Bcc area of the message.
Unless, there is a way to accomplish this for a group of addresses out of Address Book.

Thanks for the reply though.