How To Create a Personal Mailing List on Gmail

If you are using Gmail (who doesn’t anyway?) and want to communicate online to a large group of people with common interests as you, the normal thing to do is to create a Google Groups and invite them to join in. Although this is an effective tool for sending messages to your Gmail contacts, not everyone of your contacts may be open to subscribing to Google Groups.

So, our next option would then be to manually type in the email accounts of our contact when composing an email, with the help of Gmail’s auto-complete function. But it gets pretty tedious at times especially if the email addressee grows in number and yet not big enough merit the creation of a new Google Groups. Thanks to a tip from the Official Gmail blog, I just found out that you can easily accomplish this task in an easier and faster method – that is to create a personal mailing.

Here are simple steps in creating your personal mailing list in Gmail:

1. Login to your Gmail account,
2. Click on the Contacts link located on the left side navigation panel,

   

3. Click on the group icon,
4. Name your new mailing list,
5. Add the contacts you want to include in the mailing list by searching for the contact name,
6. Click on the contact’s name and add to the new group you just created
7. Add some more contacts until all of them are added into the group

The next time you compose an email, all you need to do is type in the few letters of the group’s name and Gmail’s auto-complete will find the group you want to send email to. When you click on that group, the email account of the contacts you added on that group would be automatically added to your current email’s “TO:” field.

Easy right?

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