[X4U] How to put multiple addressees in the "to" field in Mail

[Michael Elliott]

Because there are many of those contacts  that I don't want to clutter  
up my address book with.

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On May 31, 2009, at 8:31 AM, Wayne Clodfelter <wayneclodfelter at mindspring.com 
 > wrote:

> On May 18, 2009, at 11:37 PM, Michael Elliott wrote:
>
>> I have a strange situation.
>>
>> I have, for years, kept a folder of email addresses that I use to  
>> send friends/family links to my kids' movies and photos.  The  
>> folder has about 230 ".mailloc" links, the kind that you get when  
>> you drag someone's email address to the desktop.  In the past, I  
>> have always used the AOL client to email these, but that has gotten  
>> very long in the tooth.  I'd like to use Apple Mail to email them,  
>> but I've run into a problem.
>>
>> If I drag multiple email addresses to the "To:" field in a Mail  
>> document, only the first one is entered.  But even weirder, the  
>> address is listed as a mailto: link.  So for example, if I'm  
>> emailing "foo at aol.com", and I drag that .mailloc link to the "To:"  
>> field, it actually is entered as "mailto:foo at aol.com", which, of  
>> course, is not reconized as a valid email address.
>>
>> Is there a way that I can still use my folder of individual email  
>> addresses in that way?
>
> Why not create a group (or smart group) in Address Book? Your use is  
> the precise function of such a group.
> Just create a card for each email address, place all of them in a  
> NAMED group, and send your emails to NAME. It's easy.
>
> Wayne Clodfelter
> wayneclodfelter at mindspring.com
>
>
>
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