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Groups in Contacts and in Mail

It used to be easy as far as I can remember, but now it isn't. First of all, creating a Group in Contacts isn't as intuitive as it should be. I think it should be like this: Add New Group. Then Add Contacts or eventually Create New Contact -  this from within the Group you have created.

But well, I found out how but then to send a mail wasn't easy. Or impossible, rather. I created a new mail message and started to type the name of the group. It appeared, highlighted, but then nothing. I went to Contacts and tried right click from the Group to choose Send mail to Group, but it didn't appear. After I had sent feedback to Apple it appeared.

But when I tried that a new mail message opened, but nothing in the Address Field.

I checked the cards in the Group, Two of them were without addresses, just a lot of other information. Ah, so I had found them in the section On the machine. I should have chosen them from All Contacts. Because there they have also the e-mail addresses. I don't know how those other cards have come to be.

This is the kind of details Apple should have cared for. This isn't intuitive. This is confusing and not straightforward. I haven't chosen to create those extra cards without e-mail addresses, so how do they end up there is beyond me.

But OK, the mystery is still why I can't send a mail to the group.

Another thread here mentioned to delete all previous recipients or something like that. How is that done? From where? Mail or Contacts? And why would that help?
And why can't I just drag over the e-mail addresses I want into the group, instead of the entire card? Some of them have several addresses?
This is beginning to look more like Windows 95 than MacOS.

Read the article : Contacts (El Capitan): Send email from Contacts

Contacts are people and businesses, not email addresses. No matter what type, the cards are "People" or a "Person"

Contacts app manages those entities.

A "Person" may have multiple contact methods, all managed by Contacts.

A Group can contain many people.

People can be in many Groups.

Contacts can manage multiple Accounts, such as iCloud, On My Mac (local storage), LDAP, Exchange, etc.

You can manage to create the same person in multiple Accounts.

From your description, you don't seem to understand that Contacts can manage multiple account types. It can, and you must understand this and the distinction shown in the Groups list in Contacts.

There are several ways to create a Group. They are Groups of People, not just a list of email addresses.

When you create a Group (or Distribution List), you can choose which email address is used via Edit Distribution List.

To create a Group, click the + button next to the Account you wish to use.

You can also select multiple contacts, then select New Group from Selection. That will create a Group with all the selected contacts as members of the Group. You can also just drag people into a Group.

If you have a Group selected when you add a contact, that contact will be in the selected Group.

Previous Recipients is under the Mail/Window menu.

I'm not sure exactly what you want in the To field of a new e-mail. If you want to see all of the e-mail addresses associated with the group, go to Mail/Preferences/Composing/Addressing and check When sending to a group, show all member addresses. If that isn't what you want, can you try to explain exactly what your desired outcome is.

I have done that, but it doesn't work, as I explained.

This is like ringing to some support. They assume you don't know anything. Thank you for your effort, but I already knew all of this. Perhaps I explained myself poorly or perhaps you didn't read it too well. I know that a contact or a V-card may contain multiple addresses, as well as postal address, phone numbers, notes etc etc. but I am trying to create a group to be able to send an e-mail to that group and it doesn't work. Besides, it seems like there have been created different cards for the same contact, one with and one without any e-mail address in it.

What I want to do is to create a collection of e-mail addresses and I don't care what you call it. I want to be able to send an e-mail to that collection, but it didn't work as advertised.

I really don't know how to explain that any better.

What I want to have in the To-field is the recipients to whom I want to send the mail to. I might fill that in manually, but I tried to create a group in Contacts. I managed to do that, but I didn't manage to create a group just with the preferred e-mail addresses and somehow some cards, persons or what not (I don't know why it is necessary to explain this like you are feeding someone with a teaspoon!) don't contain e-mail addresses. Somehow, duplicates have been created. The original card contains e-mail addresses and the others not. Beats me why.

I am not interested in whether the addresses show or not, just that they are there - and they are not. Nothing is in the To-field. Zero. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Ingenting. Null. Void.
I am sorry if I come through a little irritated but replies like these aren't very helpful, really.

I  have posted an answer to an old thread Creating a large e-mail group quickly

Yes, that looks handy, but although I thought that creating a group could have been more intuitive, if you don't make a selection first, I managed to create a group. The problem is that it doesn't do anything. If I choose to send an e-mail to the group, nothing appears in the To-field. Absolutely nothing. And if there is absolutely nothing, one cannot send an e-mail. I mean, I don't necessarily want to see the e-mail addresses, but what would be natural - and which was possible earlier - was to see the name of the group. Thus you knew there were something there, right? Now there is nothing. 

That is the problem.

I might add what I would think is more intuitive. To create from a selection is a bit backwards, if you have hundreds of contacts and they are spread out, one is Mr. Asomething and another is Mrs. Åsomething (that is the last letter in the Scandinavian alphabet) and others in-between. An easier and more intuitive way would have been: Create Group. Inside the Group you get to add Contacts (or why not just e-mail addresses if one so wish?) by searching for them. Write a few letters and a list will pop up. Select the correct one and there you are.

Are you able to send normal mails to senders , or is this problem is only for group contacts , did you tried to create a new user account How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac - Apple Support

And still it persists , what apps have you installed in your system , some cleaners , anti - virus etc , that will stop the computer to work normally .

Possibility of corrupted mail account , can delete if it is an IMAP account and configure it once againMail for Mac: Set up Mail with your email accounts

No problem sending normal mails. And the problem just occurred now when I tried to create a group. I have no problems when I add addresses manually to the To-field or when I respond to a mail which has been sent to a group. An no cleaners or anti-virus or anything like that.

I might try to set up another user account, though, when I have the energy

A corrupted mail account sounds plausible but I doubt that any of mine are, since they are working just fine otherwise.

What I was curious about was what I read somewhere else, about someone who had a similar problem, and went to an Apple Store (no such thing around here, though), and was adviced to delete previous recipients and that worked. First I wonder why and then I wonder how I do that?

Anyway, thank you for your suggestions.

It hardly take two minutes to create a new user account and in mail > window > previous recipient list , select the contacts and remove .

I think there must be limits of adding mails in group contacts and how many mails can we sent per day Mailbox size and message sending limits in iCloud - Apple Support

Wilfred Hildonen wrote:

 

This is like ringing to some support. They assume you don't know anything. Thank you for your effort, but I already knew all of this. Perhaps I explained myself poorly

Exactly. It sounded like you knew nothing about Contacts and how it was organized. You confused the On My Mac account with the iCloud account and seem to think it is all one entity. It isn't. It is two separate lists of contacts.

You still don't seem to understand that you choose the correct address for each person using "Edit Distribution List..." from the Edit menu. You must first add People to the Group. If you want to send those people an email, make sure their contact card has an email address.

In the Edit Distribution list dialog, select the Group to edit, then select each email address that you wish to use for that Group mailing list. You can only choose one per person. The bold address is the one used when emailing the Group

You seem to understand how to send to a Group, but your initial group had contacts without email addresses. None of us would know how you managed to have those in your On My Mac account, but similar ones in iCloud that had addresses.

An easier and more intuitive way would have been: Create Group. Inside the Group you get to add Contacts (or why not just e-mail addresses if one so wish?) by searching for them.

That already exists. Just use the search field at the top of the contact list to find the contacts. Then, drag the desired contact into the Group.

If you are used to (or even like) the Windows concept of digging ever deeper into multiple levels of modal dialog boxes, that "feature" isn't available on a Mac.

What I want to do is to create a collection of e-mail addresses and I don't care what you call it.

We don't care what you want to call it, either, but we have to establish a set of common terms in order to discuss the topic. If you call a person card a snabblenortz, none of us will have any clue as to what you mean.

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