Drag and Drop email contacts into a distribution list?

Usual is with contact groups.

Email a group or Smart Group in Contacts on Mac - Apple Support

Or the dreaded reply-all, of course.

There’s an (old) AppleScript here that might work:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/24711/is-there-a-way-to-add-all-of-the-recipients-of-an-email-to-a-group-folder-in-con

There isn't a way. You can drag the entire list into a folder in Finder which will create a text clipping.

You can drag the text clipping into a recipient field.

You can’t seem to get the fact that you can’t do what you want. There are workarounds, but you’re stuck on wanting it your way.

You could also learn AppleScript and write a script to gather each, turn it into a contact, and assign it to a group. Maybe there’s already one out there on the interwebs. There was a whole suite of AppleScripts that did that about a decade ago, but the developer couldn’t keep up with Apple’s changes.

usnavyOMS wrote:

I’d just like to be able to create a big distribution list without having to 1.Manually enter every address I want in the distribution, and 2. Avoid having to save a text list somewhere that I have to cut and paste into an email. It’s amazing to me that Apple has not addressed this in well over a decade. Very archaic email architecture. Sad.

Who said anything about cut and paste.

If you’re not spamming, it’s easiest to use a list manager service (“list server”, e.g. GNU Mailman, etc), or a mass-mailing service (Mailchimp, etc).

Or you’ll be writing your own mail client to connect to the mail server (Python and such can work well here) and tools to process messages. Passing a raw SMTP message into a locally-written or locally-sourced parser is one option for collecting email addresses, though there are others. That usually then involves a database, and pretty soon (with a fair amount of coding) you have he start of your own list server.

You’re in the range where you’ll inevitably be considered to be spamming too, so you’ll want to become familiar with your ISP’s policies, with Spamhaus and other services and block lists, and with your country’s spam regulations.

Best outsource this task, as it gets … ugly—not so much technically ugly as it’s a wad of straightforward text parsing code—but rather administratively, public and customer relations, and sometimes legally, as this all backs right up into the realm of spam.

My question is somehow different. Can you please describe how to send 100 emails at once.