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Use Mail to easily send emails to Address Book groups
Be aware that a bug exists. If you categorize your address books by groups, and one member of the group doesn't have an email address. (i.e. grandma) Then sending email to the entire group will fail. At least until you break apart the group and remove the deviant member. Defeating the purpose of sending to a single group.
Use Mail to easily send emails to Address Book groups
A year ago, Mail would happily send emails to only those group members having email addresses and ignore the rest. Now it fails. Two steps forward and at least one back. I'm sure this relates to the new "smart" method for displaying email addresses within Mail.app.
A workaround for the bug
After a lot of experimenting, I (re)discovered at least one method that gets around the bug with group emails. Groupings of contacts that are dragged and dropped to an email address field are filtered for those that contain valid email addresses. Don't ask me why this is not the case when groups are referenced using the group name! So, I was finally able to email my entire address book (a bit over 1200 contacts) as follows: |
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