How to Create a Mac Email Address for Large Distribution Lists

Are you tired of manually entering multiple email addresses every time you want to send an email to a large group? Creating a Mac email address for distribution lists is a great way to simplify the process. In this article, we will walk you through a step-by-step guide on how to create a Mac email address and set up a distribution list.

First, open Mail.app and navigate to the 'To' field. Remove any contact names that may be listed at the beginning of the field. Then, click the down-arrow next to the contact name in the blue bubble. This will bring up a standard blue bubble with all the email addresses packed inside.

Next, type in the new contact name into the Mail.app compose 'To' field. There is likely an arbitrary limit on how many email addresses you can put into one field, but we don't know what that limit might be.

After that, create a contact and name it something like '2013 4Q Students'. Enter your name, type in your email address (e.g., 'your email address'), and then select Sign in. Make sure your list of email addresses is comma-delimited. The form will also request your birthday, name, current email address, preferred language, etc. Fill in the remainder of the form, including your desired password and security question.

Now, choose your Apple ID, which is the part of the email address that comes before mac.com. However, for your situation, this won't work very well as you need to create a distribution list for many people who aren't in your Address book.

To set up your distribution list, go back to 'All Contacts' and drag the contacts into the group that you would like to be included. Then, open Contacts.app and select 'File' -> 'New Group'. Typically, if you had many people from your Contacts, you would simply create a group by following these steps.

Finally, enter the name of the group you are creating. This is what you will type into Mail, and it will effectively be the name of your distribution list. With this setup, when you want to send an email to that group, just type in the group's name and Mail.app will automatically populate the sending information.

By following these steps, you can easily create a Mac email address for large distribution lists and simplify your email sending process.

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