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

[Rob Willett]

The list is dynamic, parents change jobs (and email addresses), ISP’s, 
kids leave, new kids join. At the moment I have an Excel spreadsheet 
which I can cut and paste, but thats not a good solution as its a 
multiple step process. The Contacts app *should* do this but somebody at 
Apple decided to limit group contacts to a single email address.

Rob

On 14 Sep 2016, at 13:02, John Muccigrosso wrote:

> Just setting it up manually the first time and then either copying and 
> pasting that list or replying to the message won't do?
>
> Or set up an AppleScript that has everyone's email in it.
>
> (FWIW, this is exactly the kind of thing I would not want to receive 
> multiple copies of, but my kids are old now. :-) )
>
> John Muccigrosso
>
>> On Sep 14, 2016, at 02:31, Rob Willett 
>> <rob.mailmate at robertwillett.com> 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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