How to send to email and alternate.

I have a group of people in my address book. Everyone has an email address (their work address) and also an additional email address (their home address). I have to sometimes email everyone at both email addresses at once. In fact, at most times I need the email to be sent to both their home and work addresses. What's the easiest way to set this up?

I think if I just send it to the contact, it only goes to their email address (and not the "additional email address ".

Thanks for the assistance.

J.

 

I'm not too familiar with Thunderbird, but in Outlook 2007, I can use autocomplete to send mail to multiple addresses located in a single contact. First, I have to physically click on the address(es), and after that, Outlook remembers that selection and displays those addresses in a drop-down list in the To field (depending on which letter-key I hit).

I think Thunderbird has a similar function doesn't it?


For what it's worth, I found this concerning Gmail. Maybe it will give you some ideas?...


How do you setup a contact in Gmail to send to two email addresses?

 

IceWine ...

Someone else may have a different way, but the way I would do it would be to list both the work address and the home address of each person as separate entries in your address book.

Then, when you're ready to address your email, open your contacts list (F9), highlight both addresses for the people you wish to send the message to, and click on the "Add to To:" button at the bottom of the Contacts window. All of the highlighted addresses will be added to the address window of your message.

 

Tony's suggestion is even better than mine, as both groups (such as "home" and "work ") can be added to the address window in a single message with just a few keystrokes.

 

Yes I have done it as two groups but just thought there might be a way to avoid that and just be able to have my contacts in there once with the two emails. Thanks, anyways.

 

Put your contacts in a single group, with two addresses (work and home) for each. Then you can send it as a single email message.