Group Emailing
When composing an email to a group, if my the contacts within that group have more than one email, how do I send my message to all email addresses within the group?
Apple has decided that you can not use a group contact list to e-mail or text, maybe to prevent spam. I don't understand it. But...
You can send group e-mails on your iPhone or iPad, you just have to use the right formatting to input the e-mail addresses in your contact list.
What I did: I made a contact list in my gmail account, addressed an e-mail to the list, then cut the addresses out and pasted them into the body of the e-mail. This formatted the e-mail addresses correctly without me typing everything out. I sent the e-mail with the list in the body to myself. The format you need looks like this:
"name one" <blahname1@mail.com>, "name two" <blahname2@mail.com>,
you put the person's name in " " and the email in < > then separate each person with a comma.
The trick: Copy the names from the e-mail you sent yourself, and paste it in a new contact in your Contact.app on your iPhone, or MAC. Do not use the group contact, just a regular individual contact. Paste all the e-mails into the one e-mail space. Type the name of the group into the Company space, and you are done.
To send an e-mail to the group, just type the Group name into the To: field and your iPhone will think it is a company and fill in all the addresses. The key is to separate them with commas.