[muglo] DYI mailing list for IOS
- From: Frank Birch <fbirch@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 14:45:24 -0400
The cheapest and most direct way to create a distribution list in iOS it to add
a new contact and paste several comma delimited email addresses into just a
single email field for the contact. Sounds easy enough, but it does involve a
lot of typing, making it much easier to create and maintain on a Mac, and then
sync to your iOS device. The process is the same on both platforms, however:
Create a new e-mail and manually add all recipients in the To: field. This is
easier than typing in the addresses in full, since they should already be in
your address book and will auto-complete.
Select all of the e-mail addresses and copy them into a plain text editor.
Delete all of the “Full Names” and <brackets>, leaving just the simple
email@xxxxxxxxxx addresses, separated by commas (no spaces).
Copy the entire list as a single line of text.
Create a new contact and paste the entire list into one e-mail address entry
for this new contact.
Save the new contact. That contact is now effectively a distribution list.
If you performed the above steps on your Mac, be sure to sync using MobileMe
(if you’re a subscriber), Google or iTunes to get the new contact on each of
your iOS devices. Now your distribution list is accessible to Mail app as well
as any third-party app that has Mail access built-in. You may find that some
third-party apps require the use of semi-colons or spaces instead of commas. To
get around this, simply create a separate one line e-mail in your distribution
list contact for each format. For example, you could comma separate the “Home”
address, semi-colon the “Work” address, and use spaces for “Mobile.”
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