Hi Brett,
That's not possible, because Mail doesn't store any email addresses. I know it looks like it does, but it never has; it gets them from a database created and managed by Address Book. Cheers, Ronni On 30/12/2009, at 3:14 PM, Brett Carboni wrote: > > Thanks for that Ronni. Mail.app in Leopard is what we are using. > > I was hoping to somehow access the database that Mail.app uses. I thought > there might be an app that does this (since virus programs seem to do it all > the time :-) > > But thanks anyway, > > Regards, > > Brett > Tsunami > > On 30/12/2009, at 12:05 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> >> 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. >> ------- >> 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 >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
