Smart mailbox from group contacts

I need to create a smart mailbox from a group in my address book but i have not found a way to do it.. the only way i see is adding each contact separately. can any one please help w/ these
Thanks in advanced

Yes, I realise that, but it was a rhetorical request intended to flag up what I perceive as a glaring omission in Apple's email application. Filtered mail -- whether by rules or by Smart boxes -- is handled differently (in terms of condition choices) depending on whether the message is an outgoing one or an incoming one, and I can't understand why that should be.
If there is a logical reason for it then I would like to know what it is, is all.

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