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susan edgerton - Mar 22, 2006 - 8:38 am
I cannot figure out how to create a group address for my email address book (Mail 1.3.11) in my PowerBook G4. Address help says :
"Addressing a new message to a group
If you regularly send email to the same group of people, you can save all their addresses as a group in Address Book and use it when you address email. A person can be a member of many groups.
For more on creating groups, see Address Book Help, available in the Help menu when Address Book is the active application."
But I see no more entries in Help for creating groups, and I've found no way to do it. As a teacher, this is making my work very cumbersome as I need to send messages to students in an entire class often.
Can you help?
"Addressing a new message to a group
If you regularly send email to the same group of people, you can save all their addresses as a group in Address Book and use it when you address email. A person can be a member of many groups.
For more on creating groups, see Address Book Help, available in the Help menu when Address Book is the active application."
But I see no more entries in Help for creating groups, and I've found no way to do it. As a teacher, this is making my work very cumbersome as I need to send messages to students in an entire class often.
Can you help?
earthsaver - Mar 22, 2006 - 10:42 am
You need to make sure you're using Address Book to create your groups; not Mail. In Address Book, you'll find New Card, New Group, etc., in the File menu. Let me know if you're still confused.
- Ben
- Ben
susan edgerton - Mar 27, 2006 - 5:55 pm
As a new Mac user I did not know that I had to go to the address book in the dock, so that is most helpful information. Thanks! That solved the problem.
Susan
Susan
earthsaver - Mar 27, 2006 - 6:35 pm
You do not have to keep Address Book in the Dock. You can remove it if you prefer a simpler interface and always return to it in the Applications folder. Editing groups in AB makes sense because they're made up of your contacts, who are all stored in you address book.
If you had a physical address book, you probably wouldn't accumulate mail in your mailbox, reading and storing it there, and sorting the senders into categories to delineate which ones should receive what back from you.
That's why Mac OS X is setup the way it is. The most you can do in Mail is Edit a Distribution List, meaning if you have more than one email address on a contact's card in your address book, you can choose which one is used when including each contact in an email sent to a group of contacts.
If you had a physical address book, you probably wouldn't accumulate mail in your mailbox, reading and storing it there, and sorting the senders into categories to delineate which ones should receive what back from you.
That's why Mac OS X is setup the way it is. The most you can do in Mail is Edit a Distribution List, meaning if you have more than one email address on a contact's card in your address book, you can choose which one is used when including each contact in an email sent to a group of contacts.
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