[MlMt] Multiple email addresses per user in OS X Contacts and Mailmate

[Rob Willett]

Thanks, but kids come and go, parents also change jobs and e-mail 
addresses.

This solution works if nothing changes very often, sadly thats not the 
case.

Rob

On 14 Sep 2016, at 13:01, Annamarie wrote:

> Well the way I would manage this is with Text Expander. I'd create a 
> snippet with all the email addresses you want and voila! Never have to 
> build the list again.
>
> I do this lots with groups of emails.
>
> My two cents.
>
> Annamarie Pluhar
> 802-451-1941
> 802-579-5975 (iPhone - not good when I'm at my desk.)
>
> On 14 Sep 2016, at 2:31, Rob Willett wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I manage a small kids rugby team in the UK. We have around 50 parents 
>> which give their contact details, most of them have multiple email 
>> addresses, e.g. a work one and a home one. We want to send emails to 
>> both their emails addresses with information about upcoming games. 
>> However Contacts/Mailmate on OS X El Capitan only allows a single 
>> email address to be associated with a user in a group contact. We 
>> have experimented with various options and come to the conclusion its 
>> not actually a MailMate problem but somebody in Apple deciding that 
>> users are only allowed a single primary address, regardless of how 
>> many working email addresses they have. Shades of 640KB will always 
>> be enough :)
>>
>> Anyway, is there a solution in Mailmate that we’re not aware of, or 
>> would anybody have any recommendations for a Contacts program that 
>> works with MailMate AND allows us to have multiple contacts per user.
>>
>> We know we can create multiple card entries in Contacts to get around 
>> the problem, but thats a dirty, tacky solution. We want to have a 
>> single entry with multiple emails addresses.
>>
>> We can’t believe we are the only people who have this issue.
>>
>> Any suggestions please?
>>
>> Rob
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