TMO Quick Tip - Mail: Sending Messages to Groups
by , 7:30 AM EDT, October 5th, 2007
Apple's Mail application is tightly integrated with Address Book, which means there are plenty of ways to make the two applications work together. The two work together so well that you can drag contacts from Address Book into the recipient fields in a new email message instead of typing names -- and this trick works with Address Book groups, too.
To send an email message to a group, do this:
Drag a contact or group from Address Book to Mail's To field to add recipients. |
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Simple, and straight forward. The problem is that everyone you send the message to will see all of the email addresses in the group. If you don't want those addresses appearing for everyone, Mail includes a preference for hiding each one from the other recipients. Here's how:
Use Mail's prefs to hide individual recipients. |
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Mail can hide individual message recipients from each other. |
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Now any time you send an email to a group, each recipient will see only their own email address.