Hi Brett,

Are you using Apple Mail & Address Book in Leopard or Snow Leopard?
If so:

You do need to put the individual addresses in Address Book. However you don't 
have to go through all the fields.

I presume you have emails from these people in Mail. If so, you can select an 
email from each recipient, right-click/control-click (on the person's 
name/email address) to add the email address & name to AB. When you have done 
this for each create a group in AB and drag each name to it. You can then send 
the email to the group.
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If you are using Mail & Address Book in OSX10.4, 10.5, 10.6 you can send Group 
Mail.

1. Basically you first make a "Group" in Address Book.
2. Place who you wish to notify into the Group.
3. Then drag the group name from the Address Panel to an address field, or type 
the first few letters of the group's name and let automatic address completion 
do the rest.

To ensure that recipients see neither each other's addresses nor a bogus "To" 
address, enter the group name in the Bcc field instead of To or Cc.
The "To" field in the message each recipient gets will say 
"undisclosed-recipients":

If you want all the recipients to see each other's addresses, click the group 
name in the address field and choose Expand Group from the pop-up menu.
(To turn on automatic group expansion for all new messages, on the Composing 
preference pane, select the checkbox labelled When Sending to a Group, Show All 
Member Addresses.)

Netiquette: When sending email to a group of people, use Bcc (or turn off 
automatic group expansion) to keep addresses private and minimise scrolling for 
the recipients.


Cheers,
Ronni

17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)

On 30/12/2009, at 10:56 AM, Brett Carboni wrote:

> 
> Hi all, I'm thinking of changing from Bigpond to TPG but my "bigpond.net.au" 
> email address is over 10 years old and I don't want to lose contacts.
> 
> I am trying to get a nominal account which will let me keep this active.
> 
> Does anyone know of an emailing program which will let you address an email 
> to everyone in your Mail.app database so you can do a bulk mail out saying 
> you have changed your email address?
> 
> T.I.A.
> 
> Brett
> Tsunami




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