Marko - I do know an individual can have many email addresses in Gmail. I agree that Gmail should work the way your attachment shows it - I should be able to select from a dropdown list which shows all three (or more) addresses for my intended recipient. But it doesn't work that way, for me.
My point is that when I need to send an email to a person who has multiple gmail addresses, there is no dropdown list to select which of those multiple addresses to use, in an individual email. Most of the time, only one email address is displayed. Occasionally two addresses will be displayed, but not the third, which may be the one I want at that moment. Worse, once that single email address is displayed, there is no way to choose another address, other than going to the Contacts list, choosing to send an email to the desired address, copying the email I've just written into a new email form. The workaround suggested by another user - creating a completely separate "name" for each email address, works - sort of. If I type in just the right number of characters for the name(s) of my recipients, I get the list. If I type in even one extra character, I get no list, but only a single address, which may be one I don't want to use for that email. Example: Addressing an email to "Archibald Orange" - if I type in "Ar" or "Arc" I get the list. If my fingers overflow and type "Arch" I get only one address, which cannot be changed unless I go to the Contacts list and manually select another of "Archibald Orange's" addresses, open a new email form, and so forth. Apparently at least one other gmail user is having problems similar to the one I'm having. It's not right - but as I wrote, I can live with it. Bill On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Marko Vukovic <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:05 PM, bill hansen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I used numerals to make the identities separate "Mary 1" for business - >> "Mary 2" for academic and so forth. I'll try using the actual words >> "business" and "academic". Maybe that will work. Still, it seems a bit lame >> that Gmail can't give us a workable dropdown list. > > > Not sure why you are doing it this way, you can have many different email > addresses for the same contact, e.g. > [image: Inline image 1] > > > Now when I compose an email and begin typing Mary, I get a drop-down > where I can select which one I want. > > [image: Inline image 2] > > -- > Marko > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
