Help with creating mailing list on btinternet

Imnoexpert_2

I offered to help a friend do this on her ipad. I thought it would be easy........

I discovered that the Apple mail app which she uses to send email app doesn't have this facility (much to my surprise). There are mail apps on the App store that do this but that seemed a bit overelabourate. There is also a BT mall app.

I then tried to set up a mailing list on BT mail accessed throgh the web but found I could create a group but coudn't add  anyone from the contact list to it. I've since tried to find help from Google and the BT website and am a bit  confused because there seem to be 3 different types of bt mail, and old and new versions too.

Any ideas what the best way of getting this working might be.

Sorry if this is a bit vague but I spent an hour trying to do this and it will be a week before I get another crack at it. I don't have access to her mail in the meantime but want to have a strategy.

flaneurs_lobster

Does your friend have BT Broadband? If so she will have "Standard" BT email as part of the package. If you've created a group then adding a contact to it is just a matter of highlighting a contact in the list and clicking "Add to Group". 

Just did this using the web interface. Has the BT contacts list been populated from wherever the "master" contacts list is held?

Usual caveat, not a good idea to use an email account linked to your broadband supplier for anything other that temporary stuff. 

Gmail will also do email lists quite easily.  

debitcardmayhem

Perhaps here https://www.lifewire.com/set-up-contacts-for-group-mailing-in-ios-mail-1172538

Neil_Jones

I'm going to suggest it would be better to ask people to opt in to your mailing list.  There are various online services that will handle it all for you, then all you do is feed it your newsletter/email/ramblings and it'll do all the work.

If you just opt people in without telling them or at least giving them the chance to opt in/out then you're quite likely to get snotty and hostile replies asking (and telling) you not to email them again.  Some will say please, some will tell you to f off.

On a related note, every once in a while a person responds to a email telling them (the spammer) to go forth and multiply, without realising they've done a reply to all.  Which causes othersalso  to reply telling the respondents to go forth and multiply and so on... the end result being an avalanche of mail that started with a "enlarge your member click here" that ends up "stop mailing me you strangers!" 50 times over, causing more junk than the original mail did.

flaneurs_lobster

Neil_Jones said:

I'm going to suggest it would be better to ask people to opt in to your mailing list.  There are various online services that will handle it all for you, then all you do is feed it your newsletter/email/ramblings and it'll do all the work.

If you just opt people in without telling them or at least giving them the chance to opt in/out then you're quite likely to get snotty and hostile replies asking (and telling) you not to email them again.  Some will say please, some will tell you to f off.

On a related note, every once in a while a person responds to a email telling them (the spammer) to go forth and multiply, without realising they've done a reply to all.  Which causes othersalso  to reply telling the respondents to go forth and multiply and so on... the end result being an avalanche of mail that started with a "enlarge your member click here" that ends up "stop mailing me you strangers!" 50 times over, causing more junk than the original mail did.

This. Been there. All true.