Multiple recipients in Gmail
October 20, 2005 5:56 PM Subscribe
GmailFilter: I switched to Gmail over a year ago, and I think it's great. But one feature that Yahoo and Hotmail have I haven't been able to find on Gmail: when I write an email and want to send to multiple people, what's the best way to do this? With Hotmail, for example, the "To" is a hyperlink and brings up a small popup list of all your contacts--very simple and convenient. Does Gmail have a similar feature? I canna find it!
You can also open your contacts list before you start composing and select the people you want to send it to.
posted by jacquilynne at 6:24 PM on October 20, 2005
posted by jacquilynne at 6:24 PM on October 20, 2005
"Although there is no built-in feature to create group lists in GMail, there is an easy workaround. Click on Contacts (left-side menu) and choose Add Contact (top right corner). Enter a name for the group in the Name field. Then in the Primary Email field start inputting the addresses of group members. Here is the trick: leave out the first and last brackets." More here.
posted by JPowers at 6:37 PM on October 20, 2005
posted by JPowers at 6:37 PM on October 20, 2005
just start typing the name.
Gmail knows who you've been in correspondence with. Even if it was just once and late at night, Gmail will remember. Good, non-judgemental Gmail
posted by slapshot57 at 7:31 PM on October 20, 2005 [1 favorite]
Gmail knows who you've been in correspondence with. Even if it was just once and late at night, Gmail will remember. Good, non-judgemental Gmail
posted by slapshot57 at 7:31 PM on October 20, 2005 [1 favorite]
You can also go into contacts, click a contact, and "edit contact information". Add a keyword into the comments box, like "list" .
When you want to send to a list that person should be on, do a search for "list" from the main contacts page. It will bring up all contacts that have "list" in the comment box. Then click "all", down at the bottom to checklist all of them, and then compose. It will dump all the checked contacts into the To: box. Create a Bcc box, copy and paste, and now it's a mass send with hidden addresses.
The advantage here is that one person can be on multiple lists, and you can build a custom list based on what you enter. If you entered the area code of each person, sending an email to friends in your city only would be a couple clicks, repeating the previous step for each code.
This might be overkill for the question. Yeah, commas work.
posted by Jack Karaoke at 12:17 AM on October 21, 2005
When you want to send to a list that person should be on, do a search for "list" from the main contacts page. It will bring up all contacts that have "list" in the comment box. Then click "all", down at the bottom to checklist all of them, and then compose. It will dump all the checked contacts into the To: box. Create a Bcc box, copy and paste, and now it's a mass send with hidden addresses.
The advantage here is that one person can be on multiple lists, and you can build a custom list based on what you enter. If you entered the area code of each person, sending an email to friends in your city only would be a couple clicks, repeating the previous step for each code.
This might be overkill for the question. Yeah, commas work.
posted by Jack Karaoke at 12:17 AM on October 21, 2005
Slapshot is right. Just start typing a recipient's name, and it'll give you an autocomplete dropdown. You can use up and down to highlight one (if you have several contacts with similar names), and hit tab or enter to choose the highlighted one. It'll automatically append a comma for you, too, so you can just start writing the next name. And since Gmail automatically remembers who you write emails to, I don't remember the last time I manually went to my contacts list.
posted by Plutor at 5:01 AM on October 21, 2005
posted by Plutor at 5:01 AM on October 21, 2005
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posted by bonaldi at 6:08 PM on October 20, 2005