Building Groups w/Address Book and Mail

I've built groups using the Mail help. Groups show up fine in Address Book. The problem is when I try to send an email to a group (have clicked on the group itself and have also just designated the group in the address bar of the email) only some members of the group are showing up in the address bar. I've compared cards and the info entered is identical, except for the differences in email addresses. Am I missing something here? Thanks.

If you're running Lion, as your profile says, why are you posting in the Tiger forum. Mail in Tiger is very different than Mail in Lion.

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Address Book and Mail - Using Groups for e-mail

I've noticed something strange about Mail and Address Book in Tiger:
I created a new Group in Address Book. The Group contains people who are involved in a project. I have names, home addresses and phone numbers for eveyone, but a few people do not have e-mail. When a try using this Group to send out an e-mail message, Mail warns me that John Smith does not appear to have a valid e-mail address. I can't send the message unless I select only those in the group who have e-mail addresses and only send to them. This is a pain.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug in Tiger's Address Book and Mail.app? How can I get around this? I have several Groups like this that contain entries with no e-mail.

It's not a bug in Address Book, it's a limitation. Your only way to get around that is to either remove those from the group, or give them all the same email address; i.e., send those to you so you are reminded that they didn't get the email and you have to notify them some other way.
And of course, when sending to more than one person, never put the recipients in the To or CC field; they should always go in the BCC field.
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Address book and Mail help needed

Greetings. I recently switched from Entourage to Mail. I'm having some troubles with Address Book and Mail. I hope that someone can help.
1. I can't seem to find an easy way to determine if an email address is already in the Address Book. In Entourage, if the email address is not in the address book, it gives me the option to add it with a link at the top of the mail window. How can I tell if an email address from an incoming mail is in the Address Book or not?
2. In Mail, when I right-click on a mail address that I am sure is in the Address Book, it often gives me the option to "Add to Address Book". Other times, it will give me the option to "Open in Address Book". There doesn't seem to be a pattern. Is there something that I can do to fix this inconsistency?
3. In Entourage, when adding a new email address to the address book, I can just click on the button in the mail window to do that, which automatically opens the new address, and then I can edit information and add a category. In Mail, the same functionality requires several separate steps (Add to Address Book, open Address Book, find new email address, click on edit to make changes, drag to Group). Is there some way to streamline the process in Mail?
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I have the same problem as #2.
I have a contact who sends me email from two addresses. However, in mail, the two address return different sender names - one is his initial "j" and the other is his full name.
This makes it annoying to sort threads by the "from" field, or search for that sender.
I added both to the address book, opened address book, and selected "merge contacts."
They merged. But in mail, they still return different sender names! Merge failed!
After merge, all the "j" emails still offer "add to address book" when i click them. When I do this, it creates a new address card, and if I merge this with the old merged card, then the email goes back to offering "add to address book" instead of updating all those emails with the sender's full name. Basically Mail is ignoring the address book just for that sender!
I tried "add to address book" -> quit mail -> open address book
There was the entry.
Then open mail,
There was the email, "open in address book" appeared and so I did.
I edited the name to match the full name.
Go back to mail. Still listed in mailbox as "j" instead of full name.
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Known issue with Smart Groups in Address Book...it's not Mail.
Delete all Smart Groups in Address Book and it will fix the problem for both...it takes a long time to do since you get the spinning beach ball when you click on anything in Address Book, so give yourself about an hour.
There are other threads about the issue...hopefully it will be fixed in an update...good luck!
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I'm guessing the reason might be that Apple want you to use their dotmac account for this purpose.
The only way around it is to backup the individual folders that are used by those apps. eg:
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I cannot delete a group from address book and when I choose file>import, import is greyed out and not accessible? Any thoughts?

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Are they in Login items under System Preferences/Users/Login Items?
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Hi,
I am new to this forum and I hope that someone can help me. I have 178 addresses in my Address Book. I added a new person today, my new boss actually. I went into Mail to address an email to her and her email address will not come up. I have deleted and added her again to Address Book and still the same thing. Am I at maximum capacity on Address Book or something?
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Thank you. Update my system? Do you mean the OS or the Mail program? My bosses name is Rose. When I type in Rose, Mail doesn't link to the Address Book. Neither the last name or the email address appears.

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How do I make it so that whatever name I put in my address book and assign to a person it stays that way FOREVER?!? I'll go into address book and change it but as the person emails me back with whatever name they have set to it, it changes again. For example lets say my friend "John Doe" emails me and it comes up as John Doe. I go into address book and just make it say "John". The next time he emails me, it comes up as John Doe again. Can't address book be permanent and unwavering? I just want my address to be what I made them and nothing else.

The deleting of "John Doe" in "Previous Receipents" and the change in "John" in Address Book only helps for a short time - as soon, as John Doe sends a mail again named "John Doe", the Address Book entry will be manipulated again from "John" to "John Doe".
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When I choose an email address from an entry in Address Book, clicking on "Send email", it opens Google Mail instead
of Apple Mail.
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Thanks for the tip. My problem, as it turns out, was due to the fact that I had no regular Groups defined, only Smart Groups. I think this may be a bug. If you have only Smart Groups and not a single regular Group defined, the Edit Distribution List is grayed out.

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