Use Entourage to mass email group members

Dec 19, '02 09:19:02AM

Contributed by: f9k-a

I maintain a small club membership database in FileMaker Pro, and needed to mail the menbers. I had a look at different add-ons for FM Pro, but found none with the simplicity I needed. But the solution is simple. Export all the email addresses as tab-delimited text, open the file in a text editor and replace the paragraph marks with commas (name@mail.com,name2@mail.com, ...). Copy the entire text, switch to Entourage and open a new message window. Control- (or right-) click in either the To, Cc or Bcc field and paste the addresses in. It worked with my 40-something recipients, but there is probably an upper limit.

[Editor's note: Yes, there are legitimate reasons to mass email a group of people, so please don't attack this post on the grounds of encouraging spam. Besides, using cut and paste and Entourage is not going to be the preferred method of most spammers! As an aside, when I have to send emails to a group of people, I always paste the addresses in the "bcc" field, and then insert my own email address (or a fictitious one on my domain) in the "To" field -- protecting other people's email addresses when you send out an announcement is a Very Good Thing to do!]

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