Documentation · Communication & account
Broadcast email
Broadcast sends one email to a group of directees at once — a schedule change, a retreat announcement, a holiday note. Everyone is BCC’d, so no one sees anyone else’s address, and replies come straight back to you.
Compose the message
Broadcast lives under People → Broadcast. Give it a Subject and write the Message in the rich text editor — bold, italics, links, headings, and lists are all available, the same as elsewhere in Directee.
- In the left navigation, open People → Broadcast.
- Enter a Subject.
- Write the Message in the editor below it.
Choose recipients
The audience starts as everyone in your People list who has an email address on file — you narrow it from there with three filters, and they combine: Status (All, Active Only, or Inactive Only), Classification, and Category. Leave Classification or Category on "All" to skip that filter entirely.
A live recipient count updates under the form as you adjust the filters, so you always know how many people are about to receive the message before you send it.
Classifications and Categories are the same lists you assign to directees on their profile. If you haven’t set any up, those filters simply have nothing to narrow — Status is enough on its own to reach everyone, or just your active people.
Send it
The Send button shows the exact count — "Send to 14 Recipients" — and is disabled if the current filters match no one. Sending asks for confirmation once, then queues the email in the background; you don’t wait for it to go out.
You’ll get a notification the moment it’s queued, and another once it’s actually sent (or if it fails to send).
- Set your filters until the recipient count looks right.
- Click Send to [count] Recipients.
- Confirm in the dialog. This can’t be undone once sent.
What recipients see
Every recipient is BCC’d — they can’t see who else received the email. You receive the message yourself as the visible "to" address, so you get a copy in your own inbox as proof it went out.
The email arrives from "[Your name] via Directee," signed with your name at the bottom, but Reply sends straight to your real email address — directees can write back to you directly, not into a shared inbox.
Past broadcasts are listed in the Broadcast History table on the same page, showing the subject, how many people received it, and when it was sent.