Composing mail and limit access to Address Book groups

When composing a new email with Mail, is it possible to filter a user to only see a specific group or groups within Address Book? I am using MobileMe to sync our computers, so all contacts and contact groups are in the Address Book app on all computers. My wife only wants to see the contacts in her group when composing an email instead of all contacts and all groups.
Is there a way to limit which groups she has access to use when composing an email?

DrankMacKoolAid wrote:
When composing a new email with Mail, is it possible to filter a user to only see a specific group or groups within Address Book? I am using MobileMe to sync our computers, so all contacts and contact groups are in the Address Book app on all computers. My wife only wants to see the contacts in her group when composing an email instead of all contacts and all groups.
Is there a way to limit which groups she has access to use when composing an email?
no. all address book entries will be available when you are composing a message.
the only option you have is to completely turn off automatic address completion. that's done in mail preferences->composing.

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i could not find an address book forum - excuse me if i post here.
an address book group with about 20 names has worked well for a year.
today i added and deleted a few names. now mail does not recognize the name as an email group.
i created a new group with a new name and imported all the names in one block from the non working group. the new group also is not recognized as having email addesses in mail.
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i had entourage for awhile and had to rebuild it periodically. do i need to do something similar here.
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Check the names of your groups that you have this issue with to make sure you don't have any special characters or extra spaces at the beginning or end of the group name.
I just found another posting on the message boards that solved my issues. Someone discovered that they had a blank space in their group name which was causing the error. I didn't have any extra spaces at th end of the group name, but I did have a period in my group name (St. Francis). I removed the period from the group name in address book and now the emails send to that group without the error message.

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Ultimately, I have two questions:
What has changed and can I fix it so it works as it used to?
If I can't fix it, what other email/address book software combination works simply and cleanly so I don't have to live with this frustration.

This add-on may help:
https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html
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DrankMacKoolAid wrote:
When composing a new email with Mail, is it possible to filter a user to only see a specific group or groups within Address Book? I am using MobileMe to sync our computers, so all contacts and contact groups are in the Address Book app on all computers. My wife only wants to see the contacts in her group when composing an email instead of all contacts and all groups.
Is there a way to limit which groups she has access to use when composing an email?
no. all address book entries will be available when you are composing a message.
the only option you have is to completely turn off automatic address completion. that's done in mail preferences->composing.

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Clear the cache and the cookies from sites that cause problems.
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Homer_J wrote:
pottyperson wrote:
use an email client such as Thunderbird. That stores all your contacts and saved messages on your computer, and you can back up the data as you wish. In my view it's also easier to manage your email that way than online.
It is only easier if you always have access to that computer.
The beauty of having everything online is you can access it from anywhere you have an internet connection.
I use POP and keep on top of my email online when parted from my main computer, downloading retained messages when I get home. But if you want access to all your folders and messages from any computer, you can use IMAP to get the best of both worlds.
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Slow access to address book functions due to shared address books

We have recently migrated from GW v8.0.3 on NetWare 6.5 to GW 2012.2 on
SLES 11.3. Single PO system, with only 65 users.
We have been experiencing 10 second hangs/delays the first time any GW
address book functions are accessed. Some users are on the GW 2012.0.2
client, others are still on the GW 8.0.3 client, all experiencing the 10
second delay issue. We did not experience this before the migration to
GW 2012.
Testing indicates that the issue is due to shared address books.
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book function after starting the GroupWise client. For example, once
the GroupWise client is newly started, if I open the address book, it
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square one with the first use of each of those address book functions
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Unfortunately, we use shared address books very heavily, so deleting
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communications or DNS issues with no luck.
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Originally Posted by gtn
We have been experiencing 10 second hangs/delays the first time any GW
address book functions are accessed. Some users are on the GW 2012.0.2
client, others are still on the GW 8.0.3 client, all experiencing the 10
second delay issue. We did not experience this before the migration to
GW 2012.
Testing indicates that the issue is due to shared address books.
We have been dealing with this same if not similar sounding issue, opened a SR, and engineering is looking into it. For us it also impacts message compose ( address completeion ) as well as opening mail. We have yet to identify a workaround. What we see is "roughly" a 3 second delay per shared address book, occuring intermittently after a period of the client being idle. We also see on the POA that periodically the client will login to these shared accounts, but instead of those logins happening quickly ( sub 1 second for all of them combined ).
This is not a constant problem for all users with the 2012 client, and seems to run in fits for a given user. We see it, perhaps 1 -3 times a day for a given user.
If you enable Verbose logging on the POA ( via the HTTP console ) and look for the IP address of the workstation with the problems, you should see a pattern of logins as follows:
Code:
1204poa.028:18:41:32 F059 C/S Login Windows ::GW Id=Kxxxxr :: 192.168.1.110
1204poa.028:18:41:35 F059 C/S Login Windows ::GW Id=Sxxxxk :: 192.168.1.110
1204poa.028:18:41:38 F059 C/S Login Windows ::GW Id=Exxxxr :: 192.168.1.110
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1204poa.028:18:41:44 F051 C/S Login Windows ::GW Id=Kxxxxr :: 192.168.1.110
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1204poa.028:18:41:50 F061 C/S Login Windows ::GW Id=Kxxxxr :: 192.168.1.110
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Note the 3 second delay between each of the shared account logins. This typifies the problem we are seeing. Under normal circumstances you would see these all happening with the same time stamp. Perhaps you can confirm this is the same looking issue.
I'll keep you apprised of our progress.
-- Bob

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