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Background: Mailing list groups are most helpful if you repeatedly send messages to the same group of people (for example, everyone on your baseball team). Mailing lists allows you to address a message to an entire pre-defined group of people (without typing out the e-mail address of each recipient). |
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Adding a mailing group to your personal address book
If a person you want to add is a new contact |
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Adding a mailing group to your personal address book |
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- Click on Tools, then click on Address Book.
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- This will bring up the Address Book window.
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- Click on the New button (it looks like a card).
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- Double-click on New Distribution List.
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- The Properties window will appear.
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- Type a unique, easily recognizable name for your group, then click on the Select Members button.
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- This will bring up the Select Group Members window.
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- If the people you want to add are in your contacts list, click on the names you want to add (this will highlight them), then click on the Members-> button. This will move them over to the distribution list.
- If these are all the people you want to add, click on the OK button, then click on the Save and Close button.
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If a person you want to add is a new contact |
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Click on the New Contact button. This will bring up the Contact Properties window (see Adding a Contact to Your Address Book if you need help filling out this window.) |
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When the person is added to your contacts list, click on the name, then click on the
Members-> button. |
