Andy and Zack - Thanks for getting back to me, and my apologies for not being clear enough. It seems I never supply enough data. Let me try again:
The current group is composed of students in a small dog training class I teach. They don't all want other members of the group to know their individual email addresses, so I send the email to *myself* (at the same email address I'm using now), and I send a Bcc to the group (using the group name). I ask members to hit Reply and type "got it". If I don't get a reply within about 2 days I send each one an individual copy of the group email (which is a minor pain in the neck, but with a small group it's doable). At the next class meeting, which is only a few days after they should have received the email, I ask if they received the group version. A few of them usually get the email but the majority do not receive it. So, trying to be clear - the "To" line has my address. I hit the "Bcc" letters and put in the Group name. And yes, I can see each member's email address in the Bcc line. But they can't see the individual addresses. With larger classes and larger groups, sending each member an individual email would get too time consuming. Groups were a good way to handle this when I used Outlook, but they're dangerous in Gmail because I never know who receives the email and who doesn't, unless I send everyone an individual copy, straight to their individual email address. Bill On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Zack (Doc) <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm confused Bill. You talk about sending to a group address, created in > gmail. When I type a group name, it changes to the individual e-mails. > Does yours stay as one address? If so, can you give an example of what it > looks like when you've addressed an e-mail? > > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:28 PM, billhansen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Emails sent to a Group address (a Group created in Gmail, which contains >> my own address and those of several other people) are still not getting >> through. Group emails which include my own gmail address do get back to >> *me*, but only to me. Other addressees rarely receive my group email. (The >> addresses themselves are correct. I can send individual gmails to each >> person in the group, and those gmails all get through.) >> >> I've gone through the Gmail Help files, and if there's anything in them >> which addresses this problem, I've overlooked it. >> >> I didn't have this problem when I used MS Outlook, but Outlook had some >> other problems. I like Gmail a lot, but I sure wish I could get the Group >> email feature to work. >> >> Any further thoughts on this?The Group emails do appear in my Sent Mail >> folder (within Gmail). I've asked people to check their Junk, Trash, and >> Spam filters, and nobody has found my Group emails there. >> >> Bill >> >> -- >> 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. >> 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. > 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
