Hmm... I see that the comment I thought I posted yesterday isn't here. The deal was that when I used the email1,email2,email3 form, something added a ">" at the end and the AOL server rejected the string. I was able to make it work with "name1<email1>,name2<email2>,name3<email3>" - and, as a bonus, the Invalid Address dialog doesn't come up. It was way easier to compose the string on my iMac and e-mail it to myself than to compose it in Notes on the iPhone. I was able to use a whole lot of copying from Address Book to save a lot of time. I like it!
cgranier
· 2 months ago
Thanks so much for this find. I'll update the article with these instructions. I've already tried it and confirmed that that "Invalid Address" dialog is indeed gone!
BTW, I found no traces of your comment from yesterday. Nothing in spam folder either.
kevin
· 2 months ago
i was also not able to get it to work until i used the fix by luke. it works now. thanks for the post.
shawnblog
· 5 months ago
There's gotta be a better way!
dealoco
· 5 months ago
Thanks for the tip. Kinda ridiculous that it's needed, but good nonetheless.
coliv77
· 5 months ago
I've been using an iPhone App for months called "Groups". Very cool UI and many other functions. I wish that the address bar behaved like in the Mac's Mail App.
Ron Peled
· 5 months ago
Great idea! I have been looking for an easy solution to my photo of the day distribution list. This solution is simple and does the job. Thanks!
cgranier
· 5 months ago
Ron, let me know how this works for you on a daily basis. How large is your distribution list? I currently use it several times a day with a list of twelve and it works like a charm.
jbreazeale
· 4 months ago
Thanks for the tip! I have several groups setup in Google Contacts, but those don't work from the Safari version of Gmail (at least I can't figure out how...) so yay!
Jennifer Pudsey
· 3 months ago
Thank you so much for this! I absolutely refuse to pay for an app that would do something the phone should do already. This totally works great!
YF, Luke
· 2 months ago
and by the way, when using the name<e-mail> format, there's no "Invalid Address" dialog to dismiss
ben3437
· 2 weeks ago
can you give me an example of how to write the group using name.
ej77
· 1 week ago
I've followed the line by line and still get the emails returned as undeliverable. Does this work on the MS Exchange server??
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It was way easier to compose the string on my iMac and e-mail it to myself than to compose it in Notes on the iPhone. I was able to use a whole lot of copying from Address Book to save a lot of time.
I like it!
BTW, I found no traces of your comment from yesterday. Nothing in spam folder either.
I wish that the address bar behaved like in the Mac's Mail App.