Hiding group addresses in Mail

With Microsoft Entourage, you can create a group, fill it up with email contacts and then check a box that says "Don't show addresses when sending to a group." As you might expect, this is handy when I want to send a mass message out to lots of people I know while at the same time respecting the privacy each member may have as far as sharing their email address with others. I can't find this feature with Apple's Mail, if in fact it even exists.

Mail Preferences, Composing, Addressing, When sending to a group, show all member addresses.
Or, just BCC everyone.

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Hiding Group recipients in Mail with Mavericks

I have recently upgraded to Mavericks 10.9.2 and realise that I am now breaking the rule of not showing all the recipients addresses in a Group mail.
Prior to upgrading, the system was working, and when I mailed to a Group the To: field only showed "Undisclosed Recipients". I confirm that in Preferences the box for showing all addresses is de-selected. Always has been.
Now all the Group Smart names appear in the To: field, and if you click the disclosure triangle on the name the whole address is displayed....bad for security.
The only work-around at the moment seems to be to put the Group in the Bcc field, but this then leaves a blank in the To: field which looks suspiciously like a Spam message.
I must be missing something that has changed. Any ideas please ??

Mail Preferences, Composing, Addressing, When sending to a group, show all member addresses.
Or, just BCC everyone.

Group addressed e-mails not being received

My new iPad seems to be receiving e-mails that are specifically addressed to me just fine. But, I have noticed that e-mails addressed to a group of recipients (including me) are not being received on my iPad while my computer does. For example, my employer will send out an e-mail to all of the employees (as a group). I can view the e-mail on my computer but the iPad doesn't receive it. And, I'm using the same e-mail account on both. Why?

Johnoo wrote:
OK, I've worked out how to set up a sub - account.
BUT
Concerned that if I set one up it will impact on my current BT Yahoo account, ie could e mails be diverted or will the sub account only be used to persons I share it with? The BTYahoo sub-account is a stand alone account and will only get emails that are addressed to it. If you want emails from it to go to your main account you would need to set up a forwarding rule.
Also if/when I get replies will I see them on my normal BTYahoo e mail "In Box" page or on a different page? No. You would only see them in your "normal" email inbox if you do as I suggest above and have them forwarded to your "normal" BTYahoo email. If you don't do that the sub-account email behaves in the same manner as any other email account and you would need to log onto it to see the emails.
Also
Do you think it will solve the question posed above? You would need to establish what the problem is in the first place such as are the notifications being blocked by your spam filter, are they being sent etc because the same thing could happen if you have them sent to your new sub-account email.

Group address (from mail list) is added to subject line

Just this week-without changing any settings-emails that are sent to a mailing list show the addressee in the subject line as well as the address, but in brackets, i.e. address [email protected] / subject -[[email protected]] great news!
I checked with my ISP who hosts our mail and they thought it might be a virus attached to address book or mail program.
Can anyone help? It is a problem in annoyance only, altho it interferes with searching.

Just this week-without changing any settings-emails
that are sent to a mailing list show the addressee in
the subject line as well as the address, but in
brackets, i.e. address [email protected] / subject
-[[email protected]] great news!
That is very unusual. You might want to check with the mailing list administrator and see if anything has changed there. Is there anything unusual about the way you create and send these messages?
I checked with my ISP who hosts our mail and they
thought it might be a virus attached to address book
or mail program.
Hmph, obviously they haven't got the slightest clue what they're talking about. This might be true with a Windows machine, but there is no such virus on Macs. You can safely set this worry aside.

Has anyone had an issue with group addressing in OS X 10.9 Mail

Has anyone had an issue with group addresses in Mail after installing Mavericks? Both my MBP-15 and my Mac Pro stopped automatically filling in the addresses when I typed the name of the group that I have in Contacts, after updating to Mavericks. Prior to updating they worked just fine.

Hi,
I just found these work arounds.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5490015?tstart=0
The first is appropriate if you want to send as an undlisclosed resicpient. The second method shows all addresses.

Group addresses not being retained

Has anyone had problems with the group addresses in Mail? I enter the addresses into the group but later, after re-starting my computer, the groups are empty.

These are mosly old addresses and old groups. The groups just suddenly appeared empty. I re-dragged the contacts and sent some mail. The next time I tried to do this, the group was empy again. I just loaded the groups again from v-card from my lap-top. I deleted the old groups first. One group gave me lots of trouble in that I couldn't delete it at first.

Mail: Group addresses should not expand

Suddenly, Mail chose to expand group addresses, even though the relevant box in Preferences —> Composing is unchecked.
I have ‘checked’ the box, quit Mail, relaunched Mail, composed a test message and send it (of course all the addresses were there). Then unchecked the box, quit Mail, relaunched, and composed another test message. Still, all the addresses were there...
Any suggestions?
MacBook Pro, MacOS 10.10

Klaus Blume wrote:
Mmmhh... The last group email I have sent was almost a year ago April 1, 2014. It worked then. I can't remember what OS we were on then, but I keep my system software always up to the minute.
For me, hiding the recipients of a group is vital. There is always some i**ot who hits 'reply all,' and kicks lose an avalanche of emails...
Thanks for updating me on that bug, though.
That's why the email protocol has always had Bcc instead of some hack crrated by an OS developer.

How to create a group of e-mail addresses

Hi,
I need to create a group of recipients (mailing list) using a list of e-mail addresses. I guess I need to use the Address Book, but I could not find the correct way to copy/paste the entire block of addresses. The only way I found was to insert each address, one by one. This drives me crazy because I have to insert some dozens of addresses. Any suggestions? Thanks

This would be an ideal use of Address Book's File > Import...
From Address Book's help:
To import contacts:
Export addresses from another application in a supported format.
Before exporting tab-delimited or CSV files, you may want to note the order of the information fields. If the file doesn’t contain labels, you can refer to your notes to manually identify the fields in a later step.
If the application you’re exporting from supports it, export vCards that include multiple contacts to speed up importing. For example, in Outlook select all of your contacts and choose to forward them as vCards. Send the email message, which includes a vCard attachment for each selected contact, to yourself on your Mac computer. In Mail, save the vCard attachments, and then use Address Book to import them.
Verify the exported .txt or CSV files using a text editor such as TextEdit.
Make sure there are no line breaks within a contact’s information, which can cause the import to fail. Remove any line breaks you find.
Make sure that fields in a .txt or tab-delimited file are separated by a tab, and fields in a CSV file are separated by a comma, instead of by quotation marks or another character. Do not include spaces before or after tabs and commas.
Make sure all addresses have the same number of fields; add empty fields as needed.
In Address Book, choose File > Import, select the file you want to import, change the encoding if necessary, and then click Open.
If you’re importing a text file, review the field labels Address Book will use for the information. You can change field labels, or choose to ignore or not import fields.
If the first card contains headers, review the headers to make sure they are correctly labeled or marked as “Do not import,” and make changes as necessary. Any changes you make to this card are made in all of the cards in the file. To exclude the headers card from being imported, select the “Ignore first card” checkbox.
Use the arrows to browse information in the file to determine if fields need to be relabeled or not imported.
To change a label, click the arrows next to the label and choose a new label from the pop-up menu. If you don’t want to import a field, choose “Do not import.”

How do I set up a mail group on mac mail? All the advise on line seems to refer to 'address book' and I only have 'contacts'. The guidance does not work when using 'contacts' - can anyone help me?

How do I set up a mail group on mac mail? All the advise on line seems to refer to 'address book' and I only have 'contacts'. The guidance does not work when using 'contacts' - can anyone help me?

Create a group and send mail
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-create-a-basic-contact-group-in-mac -os-x-li.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/1165582/how_to_email_groups_with_mail.html
Best.

When I send an e-mail to a group address, from my address book, I get an error messageI get an error message that one of them is not a valid e-mail address, although I have used it alone without any problem.

When I send an e-mail to a group address, from my address book, I get an error messageI get an error message that one of them is not a valid e-mail address, although I have used it alone without any problem.

See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1018363

Mail does not suppress group addresses

Mail does not suppress group addresses; it ignores the appropriate flag in preferences. This used to work; I don't know when (which upgrade) killed it.

Mavericks. Known bug.

Mavericks Mail group address issue

Since upgrading to Mavericks, the method to NOT show all email addresses in a contacts group does not work. We have unchecked the show all group email addresses in Mail Preferences, but just typing in a Contacts group in the TO line shows only the group name (like Friends), but when the actual email is sent, all email addresses are visible to all recepients. This has always worked in the past.
We realize that you can start your new email by Control-clickling the group in Contacts, but that is a poor work-around, since you can't start the email first.
Anyone have a fix? We have duplicated this on both our MBAs.

I have the SAME Problem, exactly, very frustrating.
Before Mavericks, this has not happened.
Thank you
Harry
[email protected]

Hi, how do I set up a mail group in Mac Mail? I can't even find my address book! :/, Hi, how do I set up a mail group in Mac Mail? I can't even find my address book! :/

How do I set up a mail group in Appple Mail? and where is the address book?! new to mac :/

very welcome, also if you are new to mac you may find the links to the following websites very helpful:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/
http://www.apple.com/support/macbasics/
they have a lot of information about all the features on a mac and how to use those.
enjoy your mac

Group address from Address Book not sending in Mail 2

I just upgraded from Panther to Tiger, and also upgraded to Mail 2 in the process.
I discovered some of my old group addresses held in Address Book would no longer link into my emails. When I selected the group name and clicked the To button in the Address Book panel, the group name would appear in the email To line. But when I saved the email and later reopened to send it, the group name would no longer be there.
After much head scratching I worked out the problem was with full stops being included in some of the group names.
Remove the full stops and problem goes away.

Janice Fisher wrote:
I am having the same trouble but only with groups. I cannot get them to work in email
hi...In a new email, just start typing the name of the group in the To, Bcc or whatever, and the full name of the group will show up to choose, choose that name, then hit return and all the names pop in.
no dragging and dropping, sad.
or, in a new email, click 'addresses' icon at the top of the e-mail (i customized my email top bar to add this in. you can do this by right clicking on the tool bar. As you can see I have added several things)
Or that addresses man icon is at the top of the messages....and open that, then choose the group, then click in the name/list area of all the names and select all the names by doing command-A, then choose to click the button at the top left of the Addresses window: to, bcc etc
As you notice, only the topmost e-mail address, if you have several for a person, will be chosen....to that is different too....could be good, could be bad. I guess one has to rearrange all the addresses to that the top most one is the one you really want to send to
oh boy
The only use I see for Address Book, now called Contacts, it ot put the addresses, and to mail one at a time a contact. cant just drag in addresses like before, that i see.
btw, do you happen to be the Janice Fisher from Scotland?

MAIL: Can send group addresses Bcc

I have Bcc activated and when I try to put Group addresses in the Bcc area they won't go but immediately go to the "To" area. Can't get Group addresses in "Bcc" address area. Thanks.

*Hi paul, Welcome (Back)* to Apple's Users Help Users Forums.
In the "To" Box put yourself.
You should be able to put the Group in BCC then.
Good Luck, JP

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