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