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AngeliaMailTM - On-Line Help - Defining EMail Address Groups
Email Address Groups are a powerful tool that can simplify maintenance of distribution lists by freeing you from the need to modify batch files or scheduler events to change lists of intended recipients. We recommend that direct entry of Email addresses be avoided wherever possible and Email Groups be used instead – even if a group has only one member.
AngeliaMail groups are defined by selecting the “Add A New Email Address Group” item in the “Email Groups” selection group on the AngeliaMail Configuration Utility’s main form. Select a short name for your group – any combination of from 2 to 8 upper case letters, digits, and underscores (“_”)). Try to use names that are reasonably descriptive so that you will recognize them when you see them in a scheduler event or batch file command line. A full description item is also provided, and your entry in it will appear in any Configuration Utility list of Email groups. Press "Enter" or click the "Okay" button to create your group.
To add a member to your new EMail Address Group, click the “Add A Member” button on the "Add/Modify EMail Groups" dialog which appears with the "Add A Member" button enabled when your group has been created. Continue to add members to your group as needed. Click "Cancel" to return to the Configuration Utility's main form. Remember to save your configuration changes (by selecting "Save Configuration Changes To File" in the Config Options selection group on the main form) to add your new group to the AngeliaMail configuration database.
To modify an existing group, select the group by clicking on it in the "EMail Address Group Definitions" list on the Configuration Utility's main form, then click on "View/Modify the Selected EMail Address" in the "EMail Groups" select group drop down list (or double click the EMail Group in the EMail Address Group Definitions list. The "Add/Modify EMail Groups" dialog will appear and allow you to add/modify members, modify the Group Description, or delete the group. The name of the EMail Group can not be changed once the group has been created.
To Delete the selected group – check the “Deleted” box. Deleted groups remain in the configuration until it is saved and re-loaded. Loading a configuration into the AngeliaMail Configuration Utility occurs only when the utility is started, or when “Select A Different AngeliaMail Configuration File” is selected. Deleting a group will result in the deletion of any members of the group as well. There is no need to delete members individually before deleting a group. We suggest using delete with care since deleting a group that is referenced in any AngeliaMail Command File or batch file command line is likely to result in AngeliaMail failures.