The Little Mac Book, Tiger Edition [Electronic resources]

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Make a group mailing list

If you regularly send email to a specific group of people, you can make a group list in your Address Book so with one click of the button your email will be sent to everyone on the list.

PLEASE don't arbitrarily put everyone in your whole dang Address Book in a group list!!! Not everyone wants you to forward every joke and every virus warning (which Macs don't get anyway)!

Create groups that have specific purposes. You might want one group list just for family members, another for your poker club, one you send your travelogues to, and one for those people who have called you up and said, "Please put me on your mailing list for every stupid joke that runs across the Internet!" Have a separate list for people who really want political ads, too.

Anyway, it's easy to make a group list, and it's easy to send a message to one or more groups at once.

To make a group list:

First go ahead and put everyone you want in your Address Book.

Single-click the plus sign (+) at the bottom of the "Group" pane.

In the new group icon that appears, type the name of your group.

Single-click the "All" list.

Drag names from the All list in the "Name" pane and drop them into the new group.

You can put the same name in any number of groups; all names will always be in the All list.

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Send email to a group mailing list

To send email to a group list:

Simply type the name of the group in the "To" field.

To make sure the recipients do not see the entire list of email addresses:

In Mail, go to the Mail preferences (in the Mail menu).

Click the Composing icon in the toolbar.

Make sure there is no checkmark in the option "When sending to a group, show all member addresses."

This is the polite thing to do. All of us get too much mail and it's not a good idea to give everyone on your list the actual addresses of everyone else.

Have your mail read out loud to you

Have your mail read out loud to you: