Group Mail For Mac
If you’ve ever wanted to send an email to a bunch of people at once on your iOS device, you know that you can just type in each address every time. But what if you’re constantly sending emails to the same people, over and over again? Well, one thing you could do is set up a group, and then when you’d like to email those folks, you can type the name of the group in the “To:” field.
Tap the suggestion of the group you’re looking for, and your device will fill in all of the addresses. Well, that’s just the weirdest group ever. So how do you know what groups you can currently send to? Well, if you visit the Contacts app and tap the “Groups” button in the upper-left corner, you’ll see your existing groups. As I mentioned, if I need to email any of those lists of people shown above, I can just type the group name into that “To:” field to do it.
As far as adding a new group goes, though, things get a bit more complicated. IOS won’t allow you to add a new group (WHY APPLE WHY), so because of that, you’ll need to go to your computer, open the Contacts program, and then choose File New Group to create one. Afterward, you can drag and drop contact cards onto that group to add them.
The sticking point here is that you’ll have to sync your iOS device to your computer in order to force the new group to show up. The easiest way to do that is just to use iCloud syncing to. Then you’ll be able to see everything everywhere, and you can use your added groups on your iPhone or iPad, too. Finally, there’s one caveat about this.
Do you see how in my first couple of screenshots, Bryan’s name is in there twice? That’s because the contact card I have for him has two email addresses on it, and for some reason, my iOS device wants to use BOTH when I send a message to that group. On the Mac, you can use something called a distribution list to pick which email address you’d like to use for each contact , but no such option exists under iOS. The distribution list choices don’t seem to sync through iCloud, either. You can’t hear it, but I’m sighing pretty heavily right now. In any case, though, even if you have to remove an unwanted address every time, that’d still be faster than typing each address in.
And if you don’t mind your contacts being a bit messy, you could always create a separate card for every person who belongs to your group and add in only a single email address for each. Then if you add those stripped-down contacts to a new group, it’ll be all neat and clean and such for emailing. But don’t get me started on why we even have to jump through those hoops to do such a simple thing, OK? You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.
To get started first launch the app on your Mac. If you already have groups created, you can jump to sending emails directly to these groups. Assuming you don’t have any groups yet, you’ll need to create some.
Select File New Group from the menu bar to create a group in Contacts. Your new group will appear in the Contacts sidebar, and you can rename it as desired. Press Return on your keyboard when your group name is all ready to go, and then click back on “All Contacts” in the sidebar. Now, this tip depends on having your email recipients set up in the Contacts app. If this is the case, simply find each contact you’d like to add to your group and then click and drag the contact’s name to the new group you created in the sidebar.
Repeat this process for every person you want to include in your group. If you make a mistake and add the wrong person to your group, just select the group from the sidebar, find the incorrect entry, and press the delete key on your keyboard. When the pop-up confirmation window appears, select Remove From Group, which will only remove them from the group and not delete the contact entry entirely. Send Email to a Contacts Group Now, with your Contacts group set up, launch the Mail app. Create a new email message and place your cursor in the To field. Instead of typing out individual names, type the name of the group you created. Sophos 8.0.1c stalled?.
It should autopopulate the name of the group as you type, which can help if you’ve created multiple groups. You can also add the group name to the CC or BCC fields instead. Press Return on your keyboard to complete the autofill or confirm the group name.
You’ll now see something that looks like this, except with your own group’s name: Now simply compose your email message and send it when ready. Mail will send the email to everyone you added to the group in contacts, regardless of whether it’s a single person or hundreds of people. By default, Mail will display the name of your group, as shown in the screenshots above. If, however, you’d like to see and verify all of the email addresses in a given group, you can enable that via the Mail preferences. Just head to Mail Preferences from the menu bar: Then click on the Composing tab at the top of the following window.
The option we’re looking for is labeled “When sending to a group, show all member addresses.” With that checkbox OFF, sending to a group will look like my email composing screenshot above; see how the group name is the only thing shown? But if you toggle this Preferences checkbox ON, you can still use the group name to send to, but when you do that, Mail will automagically show you all of the people in the group instead of just the group name. Heavily redacted, but you get the point. One more thing: Note that if the members of your group have more than one email address on their contact cards, you can configure which one gets used when you send a message to the group. This is handy if, for example, you’ve got a group for your family, but your mom’s card has both her home and work addresses on it.
Group Mail For Mac
Maybe you don’t ever want to send a personal message to her work address, so this’ll make sure that never happens! To check out how, visit Apple’s support page on.
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