Gmail Group Mailing Tip
Steve at Deep Calls to Deep provides a tremendously helpful tip for those of you now starting to use Gmail, as I am, and wanting to email to a regular group of people–as I do. Here’s how!
Gmail Tip #26: Creating a Pseudo Address Group!
Gmail currently does not provide the facility to send emails to a Group or a List or email addresses. But thanks to an excellent tip submitted by “arianj”, we now have a very doable workaround! Read on to see how to set up a pseudo Group Contact…
Although Gmail doesn’t currently support Groups in your Contacts, you can simulate a Group list by doing the following:
1. Create a new Contact
2. In the “Name†field, enter the name of your Group (eg “My Friends”)
3. In the “E-mail†field, enter your list of email addresses in the following format:
friend1@gmail.com>,,
Note three things:
1. You must enter “>,< " (without the quotes) between all addresses
2. Be sure NOT to include a leading “<" or trainling ">“. This is intentional, because during auto-complete, Gmail adds these characters to the beginning and end of the full string that is in the e-mail field.
3. Also, there should be no spaces in the string.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
Osborne: A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God
Schlossberg: Idols For Destruction
2 Responses to “Gmail Group Mailing Tip”
Steve ~ Jan 24, 2005 at 3:22 am
Glad to give you the plug, Steve; only a little disappointed that my conversation re inerrancy with Graham ended with me leaving a good question unanswered by Graham (I mean, I really would like to know how he’d handle the situation I posed). I think I hear what he’s saying to SOME degree about inerrancy, but I’m left with more questions than answers.
Byron ~ Jan 24, 2005 at 10:44 am