Mail filling in groups from Contacts

There is a problem with Mail filling in groups from Contacts in a way which didn't happen to me before Mavericks.
When I now type in the first letter(s), Mail tries to auto complete, but when I have the right group in the "to" bar and press the enter-key the name disappears.
When I type too fast for mail auto complete to keep up (already typed the whole group name) and press enter, nothing happens, the name of the group isn't replaced by the people belonging to that group.. The cursor just keeps blinking berhing the group name.
I take it this is a bug, not by design...
Already filed a bug report at apple.com/feedback

The app Mail2Group, both paid and lite, makes it easer to mail to groups. There is no other good workaround except to copy addresses to a master group list/document and copy and paste.

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I just posted this fix to another thread and thought it might be useful to post to all of the threads I read trying to fix the problem. Here it is:
Having the same issue over here with Mavericks 10.9.1 on a new Macbook Pro/Retina. Just now found a workaround/fix/whatever:
- click on your group in the group pane of the address panel
- click anywhere in the name pane and select all (command + a)
- click the "To:" or "Cc:" or "Bcc:" tab right above the group pane at the top of the address panel window.
The names of all of the individuals in the group will appear as an expanded list in whatever field you clicked. It takes a second or two to happen.

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DOH!!!
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I can't believe how long this is taking to just add a couple groups from my Contacts into the To: area of a message in Mail. I've never had this problem with my older 10.6.8 OS. There are about 150 addresses in one group and less than 10 in another, yet, once I type in the group name, everything slows down to a snails pace in Mail and I can't type one letter without having the beachball of death start spinning. This is ridiculous! Is anyone else having these kinds of problems? Generally Mail in Mavericks has been working well for me - the amount of spam has decreased tremendously, but this new issue is a big problem!
Thanks for any insight,
kt

I am climbing the walls with this.
I have to type the text of the mail, then insert the group.
Forgot about changing anything later or adding a second group.
It takes several minutes to change one character.
Activity Monitorshows "Mail (Not Responding)", CPU running 99.9%
Crazy.

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Thanks Winnie; but why didn't that work when I typed in the whole title of the group? Just the 1st 2 letters did the trick.
Over & out

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But why should we have to type? Previously you could just intuitively drag the group name to the "To" field and it would populate it.
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Apple - Feedback

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gordonfromsan rafael wrote:
I can see group in contact list ,I have assigned a name,but the mail function does not recognize the group or group name.
Works fine on desktop mail program and in icloud mail application????
..... But it does not work that way in the mail app on the iPad. There are third party apps that will let you email to contact groups - but not the built in Mail App.
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Please follow these directions to delete the Mail "sandbox" folder.
Back up all data.
Quit Mail.
Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu. A Finder window should open with a folder named "com.apple.mail" selected. If it does, move the selected folder — not just its contents — to the Desktop. Leave the Finder window open for now.
Relaunch Mail and test. If the problem is resolved, you'll have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window. If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Post your results.
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Ernie

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Mail filling in groups from Contacts

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