[muglo] Re: DYI mailing list for IOS
- From: Frank Birch <fbirch@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 19:35:34 -0400
Yes, I know. The process I posted keeps your contacts private and on your
system. There are several more apps besides he one you mentioned.
Thank for the info.
Cheers f
On 1 May 2012, at 19:28, Wayne Dobson <pwdobson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hold the phone! They have an app for that....... 'Group email'. Allows you to
> send to any number of recipients at once, with a variety of attachments, if
> you wish. Just use your groups in address book.
>
> On May 1, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Frank Birch wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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.”
>>
>>
>
> Wayne Dobson
> pwdobson@xxxxxxxxxx
> (519) 474-1253 res.
> (519) 860-2725 cell
>
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