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

[Rob Willett]

Thomas,

OK, I knew about the distribution list but hadn’t realised that 
different groups could select different primary email addresses. I want 
one group to send to multiple email addresses but could do this by 
setting up as many groups as there are maximum number of email 
addresses.

So the first email address would be in group1 (this would send email to 
email1), anybody with a second email address would be in group2 (this 
would send to their email2 address) and anybody with a third email 
address would be in group3. Clearly the numbers would significantly 
diminish over the groups.

I’ll have a try.

Thanks

Rob

On 14 Sep 2016, at 15:01, Thomas Eckhold wrote:

> Rob,
>
> You **can** select between different email addresses of one vCard.
>
> In Contacts: Go to the „Edit“ menu and select „Edit Distribution 
> List“
>
> There you will find a list with all available groups and for each 
> group a list of associated contacts with **all** of their email 
> addresses. Now you can select the email address of a group member 
> which will be used if you send an email to this group. Different 
> groups can use different email addresses of one and the same contact. 
> No multiple vCards needed.
>
> --Thomas
>
>
>
>
> On 14 Sep 2016, at 15:54, Rob Willett wrote:
>
>> Thomas,
>>
>> I *think* this only works if you create multiple cards per person, 
>> which is what we are trying to avoid There are options to play with 
>> smart groups to get similar to this but the selection criteria is not 
>> granular enough, e.g. you can’t select on second email address.
>>
>> is that what you mean?
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> On 14 Sep 2016, at 13:31, Thomas Eckhold wrote:
>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I have created multiple contact groups in Contacts, e.g. one for the 
>>> private email addresses and one for the work email addresses. The 
>>> distribution list of a group in Contacts allows me to change between 
>>> the different email addresses of a contact. That allows me to stick 
>>> with one vCard per person but allows me to switch between the 
>>> contact groups (or send to all groups at once). In addition I have 
>>> better control which email addresses are actually used when I send 
>>> an email to a specific group.
>>>
>>> --Thomas
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