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My search through the help files and the archives leaves me still a bit confused on this topic of setting up a simple mailing/distribution list. I'll start by first explaining what I would like to accomplish. I would like to be able to start typing a list name in the TO: field and have it autocomplete with the use of ctrl+. The question then becomes how to best set up this list. The help file mentions to go through the address book and add a new group name for the people you want on a list. I don't really like this way for several reasons (and please someone tell this newbie if I'm just screwing up and not configuring the stuff correctly). 1) The first problem is I want to have a default New template for the group list. However if I set this default new template for the group than it comes up even if I just select one of the list recipients that I want to send a single new email to. 2) I can't get autcomplete in the TO: field to select a distribution list. It will work if I first go to the address book and then right click on the group and start a new message that way because it will then have the TO list in the recently used addresses, but this doesn't seem like a decent way to handle the autocomplete 3) I also really don't like having a whole contact group name for a list of people in my address book (although it's not really that big of a deal). I have certain categories in the contacts like family, friends, wfu, coworkers, church, etc. But then I email a few friends in some of those groups that I email more frequently. Say for example some of my friends I took sports with on Monday. Sure I could create a whole "sports" or "football" group in my contacts but for some reason setting up a whole GROUP for every distribution list I want to set up doesn't really sit right with me. Usually the distribution/mailing list is a subgroup of a group which The Bat doesn't store subgroups in the contacts folder. The other way that I've found to set up a distribution list as almost perfect. Set up a contact with a name and then create a TO macro in the new message template with the addresses you want. This also allows for a custom creation of specific templates just for that list. Everything is perfect about this except for entering the addresses. How do I quickly enter the email addresses that I want to use in the TO macro without having to keep going over to the address book and cutting and pasting? It seems like there really should be an easier way to add the addresses to create a mailing list? Am I totally missing something concerning the best way to set up simple distribution/mailing lists? I love everything about The Bat! except for the lack-of-ease I'm running into for setting up lists of people that I want to send email to on a regular basis. In some other email programs (ie Pegasus) it was easy to just type the name of list you want in your address book and then you could simply drag and drop names from your address book into this list (not saying I like Pegasus better, but did like this feature). Maybe there is an easier way to set up a distribution list that I'm missing. Sorry for the somewhat long post. -- Rick mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd like to be buried Indian-style, where they put you up on a high rack, above the ground. That way, you could get hit by meteorites and not even feel it." -Jack Handey -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
