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Gmail Tip #26: Creating a Pseudo Address Group! |
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Written by Jim Barr
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Tuesday, 20 July 2004 |
Gmail currently does not provide the facility to send emails to a Group or a List or email addresses. But thanks to an excellent tip submitted by "arianj", we now have a very doable workaround! Read on to see how to set up a pseudo Group Contact...
Although Gmail doesn't currently support Groups in your Contacts, you can simulate a Group list by doing the following:
1. Create a new Contact
2. In the "Name" field, enter the name of your Group (eg "My Friends")
3. In the "E-mail" field, enter your list of email addresses in the following format:
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>,<
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>,<
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Note three things:
1. You must enter ">,<" (without the quotes) between all addresses
2. Be sure NOT to include a leading "<" or trainling ">". This is intentional, because during auto-complete, Gmail adds these characters to the beginning and end of the full string that is in the e-mail field.
3. Also, there should be no spaces in the string.
Again, thanks to "arianj" for submitting this tip! |
