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Sending Email to a Group of Contacts

In your Yahoo! Address Book, you can group contacts into categories and send one email to everyone (or even just a few people) in that category. To learn how to set up categories, see the Creating Groups of Contacts (Categories) tutorial.

In most cases, you address email to a category while working in AT&T Mail, and all contacts in the category receive the message. Occasionally, you might like to send an email to selected contacts in the category. You can do this through your Yahoo! Address Book.

 

Here’s How

To send email to all contacts in a category from AT&T Mail:

  1. Open AT&T Mail by clicking the Mail tab, or by typing the following in your browser’s address box:

    address.yahoo.com

    Your AT&T Mail page opens.

  2. Click the Compose button.

    Click the Compose button.

    The Compose page opens.

  3. In the To box, type the category name.

    If Address AutoComplete works in your browser, a matching list of categories and email addresses displays as you type. Select the category or address you want.

    Select an category or address from the AutoComplete list.

    You can also type the full category name or email address.

    You can type the full category name.

    Tips:

    The email addresses listed in the category won’t display in the To box of the Compose page but do display in the confirmation window after you send your email message and display in the email messages received by your recipients.

    If you want to hide the email address from your recipients, type them in the Bcc box as described in the What’s Next section below.

  4. Compose and send your email message. Learn more

    The confirmation page lets you know that your message was sent to the listed contacts (that is, all of the contacts in the category).

 

To send email to all or a few contacts in a category from your Yahoo! Address Book:

  1. Open your Yahoo! Address Book by clicking the Contacts tab or by typing the following in your browser’s address box:

    address.yahoo.com

    Your Address Book opens.

  2. Select a category from the Categories list on the left.

    Select a category.

    The category and its contacts open on the right.

  3. Check the boxes next to the contacts in the category to whom you want to send an email.

    Check the box next to each contact to whom you want to send an email.

    If you want to send the email to all contacts in the category, click the Check All link at the bottom of the list.

    Click Check All to select all the contacts in the category.

  4. Click the Send Mail button.

    Click the Send Mail button.

    The Compose Message page opens listing all of the selected contacts, and gives you an opportunity to remove contacts from this specific email.

  5. If you like, uncheck the boxes next to contacts you decide not to include in the email, then click the Compose button.

    Click the Compose button.

    The Compose page opens with the To box automatically listing the email address of each contact selected from the category.

    Tip: If you want to hide the email address from your recipients, use the Bcc box as described in the What’s Next section below.

  6. Compose and send the message as usual. Learn more

 

What’s Next: How can I hide email addresses from my recipients?

If you want to hide email addresses from your recipients, type the addresses, including category names, in the Bcc box. This is the blind copy box, which means that the addresses typed here cannot be seen by anyone, including you after you’ve sent the message. To use the Bcc box in the Compose page, click the Show BCC link, then type a category name or email address in the displayed Bcc box. Be sure to remove the addresses from the To box if you first typed them there.

Click the Show BCC link.

Type a category or email address in the displayed BCC box.

Two points to keep in mind when using the Bcc box:

  • The To box requires an email address before Yahoo! can send the message. You can use your own or one that you don’t mind showing to all the recipients.

  • Replies to emails are sent to addresses in the To and Cc (carbon copy) boxes only, and not to the addresses listed in the Bcc box.

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Words to Know

  • Bcc: short for "blind carbon copy"; an email address in this field won’t be visible to any other recipients of the message.
  • Cc: short for "carbon copy"; use this field to add secondary recipients to an email message.
  • Category: a group of contacts in your Yahoo! Address Book. Categories let you send the same email to a group of people and let you organize information by groups.
  • Compose: to enter the text of an email message.
  • Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email, instant message, or text message.

Popups

The Composing and Sending Email Messages gives you details on using the Compose page.