Send to multiple recipients not in address book

FAQs about sending an email to multiple recipients seem to talk about using names already in one's address book to create a group. I have a text file that contains about 1000 addresses and want to send a one-time message to all of them (with each designed as BCC). How can I move those addresses all together -- or a big batch at a time in several messages -- without involving my address book?

My suggestion is take off your blinkers. DOC is not a text file. It is a Microsoft word document file. The only chance you have of that being understood by a mail program is if you buy Microsoft Outlook.
Otherwise, become familiar with CSV files (Comma Separated Values) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values. CSV permeates the entire data interchange process, especially address books, but including database data and spreadsheets. CSV files are text files. Real ones! I talk about them a little here. http://thunderbirdtweaks.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/importing-csv-files.html
If you have Excel installed and double click a CSV file Excel will open the file. I use LibreOffice, but that does not change the fundamentals of the CSV data format.
So I suggest you save your file in Word as "Plain text" and open in in Excel and hope Excel can make heads or tails of it.

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There could be any one of three solutions... Try these:
1. Make sure you set your own country code at Phone dialer Screen > Options > Smart dialing.
Set your Country Code in this format: "+xx" where xx = your country code. Some countries have two or three digit Country Codes. Do not place the '+' in your contact's entry.
* In the US, set this Country Code as "+1", and place your loca area code in the proper box (this normally the default setting in a new BB).
2. At the same location, change the National Number Length to the number of digits for your country (since some countries will have less than 10 as set as the default in the BB). Find out the total digits, minus the country code. Do not place the '+' in your contact's entry.
* For example, some countries have a total number to 8 (plus 3 for country code). You would enter "8".
3. You may have "Content Protection" set on your Address Book.
Look at Options > Security > General Settings. Scroll down to Content Protection > Include Address Book = NO.
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Hi All,
I have been using Mail for the past three years without need to send a regular mailing list mailout.
I now need to send group emails and all I want to do is browse my contacts aquired over the last three years to create a list. I have not used Address Book for anything other than phone contacts so please do not point me in that dirrection.
There must be a list of all email contacts stored somewhere on the Mac that I can look through. It is an almost impossible task to do this by browsing my inbox/sent folders.
Hope you can help and thanks in advance!
Best
Adam

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Lots of CRMs and Personal Organizers let you attach multiple notes to a Contact, along with a datetime stamp for that Note. Address Book does not, alas.
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Thanks for the question. You can actually configure this behavior from Mail preferences:
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Mac OS X: Mail - How to Hide Address Book Group Member Names When Sending an Email
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21082
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Then you may have to try manually resetting the syncservices folder by following Julian Write's post (from https://discussions.apple.com/message/9274781#9274781):
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My blackberry will not sync my address book. It goes through the calendar and tasks but not the address book.
You might benefit by activating advanced logging to see if that provides you any better diagnostics:
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elogsdon wrote:
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How do I send a message to my whole address book, for instance, a change of phone number?

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