what is serial mail and where do I get it? Thanks. Lovette On 2011-11-24, at 9:00 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> I would just use serial mail as some ISPs will trigger a spam when you try > and send to more then x number of people. Serial mail will parse out the > group and put the people in to there separate to field. No spam and I managed > to send to about 30 people a week using this method. > > > I do have to say that the group creating is now a lot easier in lion then it > ever was in snl. > Take care. > On Nov 24, 2011, at 5:37 AM, David Griffith wrote: > >> I have just managed to set up my first distribution list with address book >> and Mail. >> There are some options specifically for distribution lists which you can >> bring up in address book when you bring up the context menu so the concept >> of distribution is definitely a Mac as well as a Windows one. >> two hurdles I encountered when I did this war firstly that navigating the >> between the group , seemed difficult despite tabbing and interacting. I >> eventually closed Address book and was then able to find the table of group >> I had created to paste the contacts in. The new ease of non contiguous item >> selection in Lion proved very useful here. Not having to mess around with >> cursor tracking was a bonus. Secondly initially, the distribution list >> appeared not to work. What I did was set up the distribution list in >> address Book and then elect email from the context menu on the group. This >> would not work. >> What I found in my case was that I had to close both address book and mail. >> However on opening mail again I was then able to type in the group name into >> the to edit box and mail dutifully added all the maims from the address >> book. So what happened was I typed LVFMC which was my group name and >> pressed enter. Mail then populated the to edit boxes with all the necessary >> addresses. It may be that it will now work from Address Book and that mail >> has to restart to find the group set up by address book before all is >> smooth. . >> Thanks to the lister who posted this question as it has prompted me to sort >> it out for myself. >> David Griffith >> >> David Griffith >> d.griff...@btinternet.com >> >> >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> mac-access@mac-access.net >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at >> either the list's own dedicated web archive: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> or at the public Mail Archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. >> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>