Since uploading Mavericks, Mail groups will not work. Solution??

The way it works has changed. If you have a Group in your Contacts named 'Dancing' (for example), in Mail, when you create a new email to send to the group just type Dancing in to To field. That's how it works for me.

I preferred it when you could simply drag a group from Contacts to the Mail 'To' field. I guess it's called progress 😟.

I did the same as your instruction, but after I type the group name, the TO field would appear blank. And it would hang when I click close the window, no matter I click on save, delete or cancel.

You do not have this problem?

It works for me as described if I send to 'normal' groups, but it doesn't work if sending to Smart Groups. Are yours Smart Groups?

Here's what worked for me:

1. I selected my original group and then shift-clicked on the first and last member of the group so that all were selected.

2. From the File menu I selected "New Group from Selected."

3. This new group will work properly. Now delete the old group.

Here's what's been happening for me.

I get the problem intermittently. Before Mavericks, it would work all the time. Now, when I have the problem, I type in the Group "LCA" and hit return, and either nothing happens or LCA just disappears.

Until today, I'd restart Mail and it would work again. But now, I can't get it to work at all, even after duplicating the group in Contacts, etc.

Not sure why.

This worked for me also.

Yes, I hope so. A bit of a pain to ahve Contacts open and go there when you just want to do a group email.

Oops, Bruce--I misunderstood. I click on the + sign on the right in the To field, which brings up the contacts list, but how do I select all members of the group? Shift clicking or Command clicking doesn't seem to work for me. I have to double click each email address, one at a time.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6030

It still does not work like it did before (even after the update of Mail, mentionend in the previous post). However, you can have Mailings to groups.

• If you like to Mail to a group "with hidden distribution list": Open Adressbook and right-click / ctrl-click on the group name. Then select to create a mail to this group. The group name will appear in the To: field. (Prior to Maverics, the group name was converted to a blue button like normal adresses - this is missing now, but it works.
• If you like to Mail to a group having each recipients adress individually: Open Address, select the group, then select all members and drag and drop them to the To: field.

I can't figure out how to multi-select addresses. Right-click or control click--nothing happens. I can only double click each address to get it into the To field, and then have to do it all again.

My steps:

-New message in Mail

-Click on the + sign to the very right of the blank To field

-That opens up the Addresses window.

-I click on the group I want, which lists the people on the right side of the window

-If I right click or Control click, nothing happens. The only thing that does anything is if I click on the actual address; then the address is added to the To field, and the window closes.

Ugh.

It's a bug. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

In the meantime, the easiest way is to open the contacts application and right click (or control-click) on a group and choose "send email to group" in the popup. Mail will then have a new compose window open with the contacts in the "to" line. You can cut/paste the whole blob into the cc: or bcc: line if you want that.

That works. Looks like I'll be keeping Contacts open all the time now.....

🙂