Using LaunchBar to send group emails

Oct 25, '02 09:54:38AM

Contributed by: jason mark

I've been using LaunchBar to send email through Entourage, partly because it's quicker than Entourage's ability to find the full address. Entourage is so slow. But I couldn't get it to send group emails, so I emailed Norbert at obdev and he gave me this hint:

In order to open a new email window, LaunchBar passes mailto-URLs to the "Default Email Reader" (same as clicking such URLs in a browser). Unfortunately, Entourage doesn't allow us to select groups via mailto URLs (at least, I haven't found how).

However, the following approach seems to work: Create an html file containing URLs like this:

My friends
Then add this file to the LaunchBar configuration and scan for "Email Addresses". Hope this helps!
Remember to save the file as a .html file, not a .txt file. Also, if you're using TextEdit be sure you're not saving it as an .rtf file, of you'll have all the header info stuck in there and it won't work.

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