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[James]

If I want to send out a mass mailing to a "group", how do I do this so that they are included in the BCC (blind copy)? When I do it as individuals, I simply put myself in the "To" mailing and BCC the individuals. But I'd like to BCC a group. Furthermore, I'd like to be able to pick and choose members of that group. I can do this beautifully in Gmail. I have groups there according to Family, Friends, Work and anything else I choose. When I BCC a certain group (i.e. Friends), my Friends group pops up and I can select ALL of just check off the ones within the group that I want to receive the mail.

Can this be done in SeaMonkey or T-bird?

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[Antony]

I take that the said "group" do not have a specific newsletter they subscribe to? (If so, you can email to the newsletter's address.)

I don't think SeaMonkey or Thunderbird has such feature. I could be wrong.

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[Don_HH2K]

I did a quick Google search and found that you can define mailing lists within Mozilla Suite - I'm guessing the functionality should still be present in the current builds of Seamonkey and Thunderbird. See this link.

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[Fulvio]

It is no different to send to a group now or in the old Netscape 4.x. It have some Groups set up for the old Netscape, and all of them come up with To:. If you want to send Bcc, you will need a different Group which has been set up to send Bcc. I had an old extention, which allowed me to have the address book on a sidebar, and select To, Bcc, or whatever. next to the message, but it seems to be incompatible with the latest versions.
The Contacts Sidebar addon was last updated in 2007. I can live with that, by using the Nightly Tester Tools addon, but it is not compatible with SM2.3.1.

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[James]

What I particularly love about the Google gmail group is that you have several options before hitting the Send button. For instance, I'm not confined to the group itself but can select specific members from that group should I decide that several individuals are to be left out of the mailing. After putting checks beside their names I simply hit Done and send the e-mail. It's really very convenient and an elegant way of doing things. I'm looking into setting up Outlook to do this right now since my current flavor of the month along with IE 9.

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[PaulD]

Observations, Thunderbird(at least)-applicable

Structure --
- Address Book (as many as you want)
- - a Book contains one or more individual addresses
- - AND, optionally, one or more Address Lists
An Address List contains one or more of the names that are in the Book that the List is in
A List cannot contain a name that is not in the underlying Book (a cross-Book List)
But multiple Lists within a Book may duplicate names freely as desired
And, of course, an (individual) address may be listed in multiple Books. But this makes maintenance more difficult, since each instance has to be located.

The address portion of an email has, on each line, either an individual address (whether hand typed or selected from an Address Book is irrelevant), or the name of an Address List. These names (individuals and/or Lists) are freely specified; they are not restricted to one Book.

To: / Cc: / Bcc: / Reply-To: / Newsgroup: / Followup-To:
- applies to the individual_name or List_name that is on that line
- is line-specific (each line can be different)
- whatever is set, automatically repeats to the next line entered; but can be changed
- when a name entered is that of an Address List, it is not expanded in the email composition window
- - but the individual names ARE listed in the copy of the email in the Sent folder
- - no capability to sub-select (omit) an individual within a List (a List is not expanded for display)
- an email must have at least one addressee (well, duh), of any type
- - an email need not have an explicit [ To: ] addressee; any mix is valid
- Lists and the sending specification (To / Cc / etc.) are not linked.

If one has a particular combination of names and specifications (To, etc.) that is to be used repetitively, then a way to do this is to create a 'dummy' email with the desired settings. Then Save this email as a Template.

Another solution. Click on the Contacts button, select an Address Book, and double-click on each desired individual address or List name.

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