send to multiple email addresses

Have you tried typing a comma after each entry?

In all previous versions, you could also open the Address Panel from the Menu (Window/Address Panel) - but that has gone in this release.

Even using that blue plus sign, there seems to be no way of multi-selecting in one go. It's one at a time.

I often have to send emails to 50 or so people, most of whom have multiple email addresses (Work, Personal, etc). And often it's just a one-off, for a meeting etc, so not worth going into Contacts and setting up a specific Group. With the old Address Panel, there was a column of Groups, and the other column was just a complet but simple list of all contacts (or contacts in the group if a Group was selected), along with all their email addresses - nothing else. And three buttons up the top for To:, Cc: and Bcc:

I could skim donw the list, multi-click (Cmd-click) on each person I wanted to send to, chossing which email address for each one that I wanted to use, then click one of those buttons at the top. Easy-peasy.

Now there seems to be no way of doing that. The blue plus sign thingy doesn't allow multi-selecting. As you said - it's one at a time. A complete PITA.

Can't even do it in the separate Contacts app (which I don't want to have open all the time anyway, due to screen real estate on my Macbook Air (I'm typing this on an iMac that I haven't upgraded, and won't be). Contacts app doesn't show you a list of contacts and email addresses anywhere - it's one at a time, with the full card of info for each contact.

Mail has become the only email app I'm aware of that can't access - properly - a list of contacts and their email addresses from within the app itself.

Submit the issue to apple.com/feedback ..... I have and several others have. The more that do it, the better. Even if Apple does have cloth ears..!

Put your cursor in the field you want to use, To or Bcc, and click on the small plus sign at the far right to open you Contacts:

(Sigh) - there are several threads on this topic already, and many have suggested that.

BUT - that list does NOT allow you to multi-select. It's one at a time, having to hit the plus sign for every single email address.

The old Address Panel let you skim up and down the full list, complete with alternative email addresses, and cherry pick a multi-selection, then just hit the To:, Cc: or Bcc: button.

That plus sign list only lets you put in one email address at a time. It's useless!

You're right. Haven't sent any emails since upgrading to Yosemite. One can't even select a group in that window. But one can type in the group name in the To or Bcc field and it will enter the group. So if you send to the same people frequently create a group for them. One can add multiple groups buy just typing in the group name.

Send a feature request to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Yes - unfortunately, I send a lot of emails to various selections of colleagues, each being a different group or subgroup, depending on what the topic or meeting is. Most of them are one-offs, so it's not worth hassling about within the separate Contacts app just to set up a group for a single use.

I can't believe that Apple have overlooked this - something as basic as being able to access and select multiple email addresses, and cherry-picking which email address to use for each person. Surely, that's a pretty basic function needed in an email app? If it's a deliberate move by Apple, one has to ask - WHY?

I already submitted the issue to the Feedback site, as have several others. Perhaps you could do likewise if you haven't already - the more the merrier! 🙂

I'm not sure what you need to accomplish. I just type two letters or so, select the correct suggestion, type comma and repeat. I also use groups for commonly-sent group messages. I don't remember the last time I've manually entered a full email address.

I finally found how to get to the Contacts in Mail:

It's not very obvious is it?