[fb-exchange] How to send a group email on an iPhone or iPad - How to - Macworld UK
- From: Gerry Kerr <gerrypkerr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: FB Exchange <fb-exchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 21:10:56 +0000
http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iphone/how-send-group-email-on-iphone-3579788/
How to send a group email: Quickly add a mail group on the iPhone or iPad
We miss the ability to set up and send a group email on the iPhone and iPad (or
at least we did, until we discovered this clever workaround). Of course, we
don't mean group emails in the laborious sense - adding each recipient one by
one to the To field. We're talking about the handy shortcut where create a
collection of people (say friends, or work colleagues) in advance, and then
just enter the name of the group in the To field in Mail - a massive time-saver.
For some reason we can't do this in iOS any more; tapping the plus sign and
then Groups merely enables you to select groups created previously in Contacts.
But not to worry. We found a way to send group emails anyway. This trick uses
the Contacts app to create a new contact with multiple email addresses; you
call the contact 'friends' or 'work' and when you enter that term into the To
field in Mail it enters all the email addresses.
See also:
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Setting up Contacts and Mail to send group emails
Sending group emails in Mail on iOS a bit of a fiddly trick, but easy enough to
get your head around. These are the steps you need to follow to send a group
email in the Mail app in iOS:
Open the Contacts app (it's inside the Extras folder by default).
Tap the Add (+) icon.
Enter the name of the group (such as "friends" or "work") in the Last field.
Scroll down to the Notes section. We're going to use this to write out the
email addresses. You need to surround each mail address with greater than and
less than symbols and place a comma between each one. For example
<John@xxxxxxxx>, <Jane@xxxxxxxx>.
Tap and hold the names to bring up the contextual menu. Tap Select All and Copy.
Tap Add Email.
Tap and hold the Email field and tap Paste.
That now creates a contact with a single name but multiple email addresses.
Open the Mail app and tap New. Now enter the name of the group into the To
field. It will turn blue, indicating that it is a contact. When you send the
email it will go to all the people whose email addresses you added to Contacts.
Read more:
7 new features in iOS 8 Mail
8 new Messages features in iOS 8
5 top tips for using Safari in iOS 8
All the best
Gerry
This message has been dictated using an iPhone.
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