Mail - folders

You want to set up a group in address book to do this easily. Enter your family members in address book, then create a new group. Then you should be able to create a new mail message to that group.

 

Within AddressBook you can make groups. Create the new group, then drag in everyone that you want. Now in Mail, you can make the To: field go to the group name, and you're all set.

 

I think the confusion is that people think they need to set up the group in Mail and don't think that they should set it up in Address Book.

 

Not to drag up a month-old thread, but I've been researching this and have found that the way Mail handles groups is extraordinarily cumbersome.

For example, I want to create a 'group' with 50 emails addresses of all my students in my class. I regularly email them, hence the need for a group. Am i expected to manually enter in all of their email addresses into Address Book, only to create a group? In Outlook, Entourage and, I think, Gmail, this is a rather simple and effective process. The way Mail/Address Book wants me to do it is to populate my Address Book with a huge number of email addresses which I'll rarely use on their own but much more often collectively.

I just switched from Entourage to Mail about three days ago, and have to say that this issue is making me think about switching back. Unless I'm missing something blatantly obvious?