Mail & Adress Book: issues sending group mail - Problem solved

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I started writing this discussion because I could not get something to work. As I wrote it, I made many tests to confirm what I was writing and also read several past discussions on the subject. I ended up solving my problem and decided to share my findings. Hope it is useful to other people.
EMAIL TO A GROUP WITH ALL RECIEPIENTS SHOWING IN THE «TO» HEADER - My problem solved
SENDING FROM THE MAIL APPLICATION:
To start do the following:  Mail/Preferences/Composing  check «Show members of a group»
Then for a group name with two or more words OR wit a one word group name, start writing the group name in the «TO» header of an email wait until the « () » appears highlithed in a color as you slowly write the Address Book group name and then select the group name from the scroling list appearing below which comes from your Adress Book (whether it's open or not). If you choose in a selection list before the « () » appears as you type, you could end up with an empty list and the group email does not work. When the « () » does not yet appear but the group name does below, it most likely will not work but if you scroll down you may find a second one that will.  The whole thing is wear but once you get the hang of it you make it work everytime.
SENDING FROM THE ADDRESS BOOK APPLICATION:
If you try to send the email to a group from the application ADRESS BOOK by pressing «ctrl» & right clicking the name of the group and select «Send an email to GROUP-NAME», it will work also. But the group name must not have a space before its name in the Address Book (one could decide to do this to have a group to appear at the top of a list of groups). The latter was my problem and sending from the address book application did not work.
EMAIL TO A GROUP WITH «UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENTS» SHOWING IN THE «TO» HEADER  - My problem solved
First one has to uncheck the «Show members of a group» in Mail/Preferences/Composing
Second strat a new email and proceed as described above in «1.»  in the second and third paragraph.
As suggested in one discussion, if you still can not get it to work try closing your Mail and Address Book applications and re-open them.
As suggeted in another discussion by Ernie Stamper on May 15 2009 in the «Can't send an email to a group»:
«In Mail Preferences/Composing, select to Show members of a group, and then compose a message (no need to send for this test) using the group address -- do the 9 addresses show in the message header? If so, then report the name of the provider of the SMTP you are using. It might be that they do not allow the Group in the To -- when working correctly, the recipient sees only Undesignated Recipients in the header.»
I'm using Mac OS X 10.7.5 and Mail 5.3 (1283) on an iMac 2009
Can't send an email to a group.

Answer 1

Hi Priyanka,
I can't get it working. I get this error:
2007/03/25 17:23:00] Error in evaluate <from> expression at line "98". The result is empty for the XPath expression : "ids:getUserProperty('esbMailTo', 'mail', 'jazn.com')".
[2007/03/25 17:23:00] "{http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/}selectionFailure" has been thrown.less
- <selectionFailure xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/">
- <part name="summary">
<summary>
empty variable/expression result.
xpath variable/expression expression "ids:getUserProperty('esbMailTo', 'mail', 'jazn.com')" is empty at line 98, when attempting reading/copying it.
Please make sure the variable/expression result "ids:getUserProperty('esbMailTo', 'mail', 'jazn.com')" is not empty.
</summary>
</part
In users-properties.xml I have this:
<userObject>
     <name>esbMailTo</name>
        <description>MailTo</description>
     <mail>[email protected]</mail>           
     <title>Loan Agent 1</title>
     <firstName>James</firstName>
     <lastName>Cooper</lastName>
     <manager>jstein</manager>
        <timeZone>America/Los_Angeles</timeZone>
     <languagePreference>en-US</languagePreference>
     <notificationPreferences>Mail</notificationPreferences>
     </userObject> Any ideas?
Regards Pete