Problem Mailing to Address Book Group

I can send and receive emails with no problem. But when I try sending an email to a Group (in this case the group consists of only 4 people), I get an error.
*Cannot send message using the server smtp.earthlink.net.*
When I run Connection Doctor, everything is online and normal.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

I was sending to a group of 8. I remember that when I was using Outlook, it would automatically expand group names. I don't know if that was by design, as I found it a bit annoying -- I'd rather just see the group name. Presumably, the SMTP server has trouble parsing the group identity as opposed to the individual e-mail addies.

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I have a strange problem with iSync. I have created a group On-the-Go in my Address Book that I'm syncing with my phone (Motorola v600). The group consists of three other groups. Let's call them A, B and C.
The problem is that only group C gets synchronized. Contacts from groups A and B disappear from the phone. Strangely, if I select A or B to sync in iSync - they get synchronized just fine. Also, group C, in turn, contains other nested groups, but that does not seem to be a problem.
I played with group names, tried to recreate group A to no avail.
For now, I have added all contacts from A and B to On-the-Go as a workaround, but
it looks like a bug to me.

I have a strange problem with iSync. I have created a group On-the-Go in my Address Book that I'm syncing with my phone (Motorola v600). The group consists of three other groups. Let's call them A, B and C.
The problem is that only group C gets synchronized. Contacts from groups A and B disappear from the phone. Strangely, if I select A or B to sync in iSync - they get synchronized just fine. Also, group C, in turn, contains other nested groups, but that does not seem to be a problem.
I played with group names, tried to recreate group A to no avail.
For now, I have added all contacts from A and B to On-the-Go as a workaround, but
it looks like a bug to me.

Question: why mail does not recognize an address book group

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.

Add contact from Mail directly to Address Book group?

I am aware of adding a contact to Address Book by Control-clicking the email address, however I would like to add an address directly from Mail to an Address Book group. How is this done?

You first need to open the message(s) that have the addresses you want to add to Address Book, then select the Add Addresses… script from the Mail Scripts folder listed in the Scripts icon in the menu bar (you can activate this by launching the AppleScript Utility.app program in HD/Applications/AppleScript and check the box labelled "Show Script Menu in menu bar" if it isn't already there).
The script will launch and gather the information it needs about those messages, including the To: and From addresses and present them to you in a window; you need only check which ones you want to add and select the group you want them to go to from the drop-down menu it has and click Add or Okay, or whatever it has listed there to execute the script.
Rinse and repeat for each different group of messages you want to add to a specific group.
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How to turn mailing lists into address book groups

I'm looking for better ways to manage groups in the address book.
I especially need a way add recipients on distribution list for a particular piece of email to a particular group. I have a bunch of implicit groups I've created that way in gmail and I'd like create explicit address book groups out of my (informal) email distribution lists. Mail.app does a good job of downloading the mails via imap or pop, but now I want to select a message and say "Add everyone who received this mail to my alumni [or whatever] group in the address book."
I'm also looking for other ideas, tips, scripts for managing groups in my address book.

OK, how about you open your csv file in Excel and put a tag identifying the custom label in front of each of the items (so eg 05991444555 with label special becomes sp-05991444555), then do your import. Then after the import run an AppleScript to strip the tag and reset the label.
AK

Using Address Book Groups in Mail

If I type the name of an Address Book Group in the To: filed of a new Mail message the field will automatically be populated with the email addresses of the members of that Group.
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I have seen it asked for before, so you might try adding your voice to OS X Feedback.
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Mail and Address book playing up

Hello. I am having problems with my Mail and Address book. For some reason, sent mails sometimes do not end up in the Sent folder, received emails sometimes go to the Trash without me sending them there, and I often have to resort to "Search" in the top right hand corner of the screen to find the mail I am looking for. What's more, my address book has stopped working properly: I can create groups but each group shows the general contact list by its side, even upon creation! I cannot add or delete from the group list. Basically, it seems like the two programes have gone all wonky tonky. This may or may not have to do with the recent Security Update 2012-001 Bricks Rosetta problems. I posted here in that regard but since the problems I noticed disappeared of their own accord, I did not bother reinstalling all as suggested. Reinstalling everything is simply too much hassle for me ... I use address book a lot and need things to work. Does anyone have a quick fix for this? Could this be caused by the faulty Apple January update? thank you in advance!

You should back up what you have.
Then, restart from your Mac OS X Installation Disk (insert disk and hold down C key during startup). At the first Installer screen, run Disk Utility from the menu. Use both the Repair and Repair Permissions routines on the hard drive. Do Repair first, because you problem sounds like a disk directory issue. If Disk Utility cannot make the repair, you may need a tool like DiskWarrior or TechTool Pro.

Mail and Address Book crashing, system very slooooow in general

Not to confuse possibly separate issues, but my iMac 20 has been running slower and slower lately (continually watching the little technicolor beach ball spin), now both Mail and Address Book are crashing immediately upon attempting to start up.
Separate issues? Part of the same? And most importantly, what do I do?
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Problem was to many smart groups in my address book

Mail and Address book crash

This problem started right after a made a smart group within address book and then deleted it. Address Book and Mail will not even load now. They open but have to force quit. Address book open with 0 contacts (I should have ~300).
After searching for some help I did the following but still no luck:
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Deleted com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist and com.apple.AddressBook.plist from Library \ preferences
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Is there anything else I can do? or a trick to the order in which I need to do them? Appreciate any help I can get on this.
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Try this - find the /Library/Preferences folder in your user/Home folder and then locate and delete this file:
com.apple.mail.plist
*Caution* - doing this may clear your account settings so be sure to note those first in the event you are required to reconfigure, etc.
If you can get Mail to open and not crash, the first thing to do is to use the 'Mailbox/Rebuild' menu.
If still no joy, do you have a backup of your mail folder(s) you can use as replacements?
Use it if you do, then perhaps use your SL DVD and do a custom install/applications.
I really think the problem is with your main inbox, tho - located in yourUsername/Library/Mail
If you don't have a backup, of your main inbox, copy it, rename it, temporarily abandon the original inbox and see if you can import the clone.

Both mail and address book very slow to launch on 10.6 and 10.6.1

Like unimaginably slow. After clicking on the applications, I was able to perform a google search, find this forum, and and start this thread before either application became active.
I am running 10.6.1 and have had this problem since 10.6. not before.
I upgraded my system, I did not install Snow Leopard fresh, and I really hope I dont have to to solve this problem. So much for the speed portion of the Snow Leopard improvements!
Has anybody else seen this issue? I certainly hope so because it's terrible to have to track down a problem like this alone.
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Thank you for this link. Here is the process I used to fix it.
1 - I had one smart group in address book, with a NOT variable. (if contact is NOT in any group)
2 - click on the smart folder, wait a long time for it to be selected.
3 - delete the smart folder
4 - close address book
5 - reboot.
6 - both Mail and Address book now open very quickly. Problem solved
Thanks again!
EDIT:
re-creating the same smart group brings back the same problem!!! So we have broken address book functionality in 10.6? just awesome....
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Getting a list of email addresses into address book group

I have an email with a list of 91 addresses. I need to send mail to this list quite often. Now I highlight the list, copy it, and paste it into the new email. Is there a way to transfer the addresses from this email directly to an address book group without having to do it one by one.

Julia,
I have the same problem. I want to make a group from a list, even from a email header list. My address book has close to 1000 entries. I'm looking for an easier way (like in Eudora with Nicknames) where I can copy and paste (or something!). Anything better than making a card for each and then finding them one by one to add to the group.
Did you ever figure it out? Or get an answer elsewhere since there have been no responses here?
Greg

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when i remove the group and send to 2 individual contacts, it sends right away...help.

Not sure that there is one in today's world of spamming - frankly, I'm glad my ISP and/or web email hosting service et al have these in place.
This is what I do for any emails which need to be sent to more than about 10 - 15 people:
I prepare an email with attachments if necessary and have my address book open. I start inserting email addresses in the BCC field until I reach a certain number. I open a new message window, paste in the email, and work on the next 50 or so. I do this until I've enough emails to cover every recipient I want to send this to. I then send one or more emails, wait about 2 hours, send more, etc, etc - you get the idea.
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Lost Mail and Address Book ikons from HD

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Would like to move forward. Help for an average computer user would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry for the delayed response to your e-mail. Thank you very much for taking the time to addressing my problem.
After posting the question the hard drive further deteriorated to the point where the computer became inoperative. Ended up with a new computer and a major challenge in transferring info from old to new computer. After a long day with two friends and computer programmers by day, we succeeded in retrieving and transferring the info. Whee!
Thanks again for taking the time to address my question.

Address book groups not updated in iSync and iTunes-iPod-info sync

Changes to address book groups are not reflected in iSync and iTunes. I.e. if I remove a group or add a group it is still the old list of groups that is listed in iSync and iTunes available for syncing with my phone or iPod. How do I get these list to be updated and reflect the present list in Address Book?

The suggested resolution essentially said "delete the address book and start over."
Ok, I can see how this will help but... a few questions:
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2. What caused the problem to begin with? In other words, how can I prevent it from happening again?
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