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Allow the sending of emails to groups created in Address Book, like in Mail.app. Otherwise, the groups become useless.
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Inappropriate?Hi Lev,
In the Postbox Address book we call groups mailing lists. Just go to File / New / Mailing list or click the new list toolbar button. -
Inappropriate?Thanks, but I plan on continuing to use Address Book for contact management, and I want to be able to send emails to the groups I have created there. -
Inappropriate?oh, hmm that should be working. I'm able to send mail to adress book groups in the mac address book from postbox ok using beta 13.
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Inappropriate?are all of your groups failing or just certain ones?
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Inappropriate?so I just enter the group/list name in the to field and it will work? It definitely does not list out the addresses in a given group, like Mail does.
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Inappropriate?on send it was converting the group name into a set of addresses for me.
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Inappropriate?I want to follow up that this does not work. When I enter a group name in a recipients field, I get an error from Google saying recipient is not recognized. Never gets converted to a collection of addresses.
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Inappropriate?Also, the groups are not available in the contacts drawer when composing.
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Inappropriate?If I search on a group in the contacts sidebar, I see it and can add it to the compose window. But the group also expands for me on send....
That makes me wonder if my group is set up in the mac address book differently than yours.
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That doesn't look expanded to me, it just lists the group name. I get that far as well. The problem comes when you hit send, and it treats the group name as the actual email address. Your Addressbook group looks the same as mine. Try a test with more than one address, though, there are no groups with just one address in real use. -
Postbox doesn't expand until send FYI so you won't see the names int he compose to field.
I added a couple names to my test mailing list and it still worked. I'll keep trying a few different settings. -
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Hmm I still can't reproduce that yet, we're trying to figure out why it works for some of us and not others. Very strange.
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Inappropriate?Lev can you confirm that autocomplete does find the mailing list and fills in the rest of the text even if we don't expand the mailing list on send?
Or do you have to type the entire name of the mailing list...2 Comments Add a comment
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yes, it does find the name of the list.
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this question may sound silly but if you open the address book up in Postbox under the Mac System Address book entry there should be a list of all your mailing lists. If you click on the ones that are failing, do you see the correct list of contacts for that mailing list in the address book contact list pane? (that at least shows that we are reading the correct people out of the mac address book for that particular group).
Thanks again for your patience! -
Inappropriate?one sidenote here is that the way groups / lists work atm is very poor... eg. adding different people on the same e-mail address still doesn't work. Also, it would be so nice to be able to make some kind of hierarchical structure, add a group under another group etc.
But i understand those features are more for a post-version 1.0 release, right? Can you, Scott, say something about the number of beta's that's going to be released before we see a final 1.0? -
Inappropriate?Not sure if this what you guys were hitting but I found a failure case:
1) Start up Postbox
2) In the mac address book add a new group
3) in postbox bring up a compose window and type in the name of the group - we fail to autocomplete the name and we don't expand the group on send.
So any group you created while Postbox was running wouldn't work.
The fix for that is in b16 final which was released early this morning.
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Scott, in my case, the groups that were already created in Mac Address Book are autocompleted in the address field... but then they don't expand on send... new version still doesn't solve the problem. I get the same error message that I posted above... L
Like I said, I would pay for this, but at present, it just doesn't cut the mustard. -
thanks for the feedback Jeff. And all you are doing is starting up Postbox, clicking on new msg then typing an group name directly into the to: field of the message and hitting send (i.e. you aren't going through the contacts sidebar at all).
after you do this and fail, what happens if you bring up the postbox address book, click on the mac address book on the left hand side. Do you see the groups correctly listed as children of the mac address book in that left hand pane? -
That's correct as far as what I'm doing.
If I bring up the addresses from within postbox, I do see the groups listed correctly. I can control click on a group, see properties and then see all the emails and contacts in that group. I've posted the screen shot below. -
Inappropriate?Apart from this issue I would also like to FILTER incomming/outgoing mail on these groups like I can in Apple Mail! -
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