Bill, I work in a professional environment, and take adult online classes, and I assure you that it's extremely likely they are not checking their e-mail... however, it's more likely a problem you could be creating. Using a GMail group is no different from adding the students' addresses directly, but you bring up a point of when it's working...
It's been discussed here several times before. If you don't have ANY address on the To line, MANY systems will classify the e-mail as spam, and never even deliver it to the mailboxes of their users. Nearly as many will have a problem with the sender's name as the only TO name. This is because that is exactly the tactic many spammers used for a while. You should use some unique, preferably valid, address on the To line, and use the contact group to fill in the BCC line. This is exactly what I use, and I KNOW people are getting mine (they wind up on facebook within hours of my sending). On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:45 AM, billhansen <[email protected]>wrote: > I've noticed that when I create a Group of recipients in Gmail, the > recipients never get the emails. This happened a few different times over > the past year or so - so of course I've stopped using Groups to send emails > from Gmail. Recently I needed to send a group email to students of a class > I'm teaching, so I reverted to my older practice of sending the email to > myself, and Bcc'ing the students. Out of 8 emails which went out, > apparently none of the students got the email. (I know this, because I just > checked with each of them by phone.) > > Are the students just not checking their email? These are grown-ups, > professional people, so I doubt that. Could the emails all have gone into > Trash? Maybe - but my wife got her copy, and I got my copy, in our regular > InBoxes, hers in AOL mail and mine in Gmail. > > Any suggestions on how I might do better on this group email thing? Seems > like a severe limitation to Gmail, when most other email clients make group > emails quite easy. > > BIll Hansen > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
