Harry, nuts that Apple doesn't allow this.
Here is a work around I found on an Apple discussion group. Takes a bit to set
up originally but then you have it.
John
Work Around:
On your mac:
1. Open a new email
2. Insert name of an existing group into one of the "To" fields as usual.
3. Highlight all the resulting names in the "To" entry
[Highlight first name, and while holding shift, highlight last name and
all will highlight[]
4. Copy (Command C) the highlighted emails
5. Paste (Command V) nto a pages document
6. Remove the name and anything else preceeding the first < and also the first
< of only the first entry whixh will look like this:
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>,
7. Remove the > of the last email which will look like this:
, Jane Doe <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
8. Copy the entire altered list from the pages document
9, Go to Contact Book and click + to add a new entry
10.. Name the entry (XXX Group for iPad) or whatever you wish to call it
11. Paste all the copied altered list into any one of the email entry spaces
12. Click on "Done"
13. Create new email On iPad and click on + in any one of the "To" lines and
search for "XXX Group for iPad" You cannot just key in XXX Group for
iPad!!!!!!!, you must use + contact search.
14. Enter the selected iPad contact group into the "To" line.
15. All the entries will now appear in the "To" line and you are good to go.
Adding or deleting email addresses from the iPad group:
Easiest: Alter the original mac group in the usual way and repeat steps 1-14
above. It seems impossible to edit within the emai line of the iPad contact
entry.
Rediculously simple once figured out.
Happy emailling, but please send Bcc so that you don't spread your groups'
email addresses all over the internet for spam, viruses, and other unwanted
emails. Be considerate and ask your recipients to notifiy you if they wish to
be deleted from the lists you compose.
> On Nov 29, 2014, at 2:51 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have found a solution to the problem:
>
>
> Another short cut. Open your address book, right click on group name and
> choose send email. It will then open mail and put in all the names in the
> group.
>
>
> But I can’t figure out how to do it on my iPad or iPhone.
>
>
>
> On Nov 29, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>> Hope all of you had a pleasant Thanksgiving and didn’t over eat!!!
>>
>> Today I created a smart group within my contacts. I only added two names to
>> the group so far.
>>
>> I wanted to test it out so in MAIL i created a new message and typed the
>> name of the smart group in the TO: space and pressed return. It worked,
>> TWICE. Yes each name appeared in the To: line twice.
>>
>> Any body know what causes this and how I can avoid it?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Harry
>>
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