Note to new and existing customers: Forwarding and Reply does not worth with OS3.0 & above. This is due to a bug in the iPhone OS3.0 & above. I have filed a technical bug report and Apple has acknowledged the issue. Hopefully, this should be fixed in a new software update by Apple sometime soon. Since this is an issue at Apple's end. I am currently unable to provide a fix from my end. Hope you understand. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Mail2Group a powerful, yet easy to use application to send email to groups. The highly customizable and configurable nature of this application allows users to create several groups with multiple contacts and launch the mail application with just one click.
It provides an elegant, simple interface that you are already familiar with, to create and maintain your groups.

With as single tap, you can change your contact to be a either "To", "CC" or "BCC" recipient in the group. Apart from just adding contacts from your phone book, it also allows you to add email address of contacts outside of your phone book. Also, a pre-defined subject and body message can be set for every group which makes it much easier when you are sending repetitive information to same group of people often. With Mail2Group, you can also email picture to the groups using SMTP.

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Highlighted Features:

1. Create Multiple Groups
   
2. Easy Launch of the Mail Application
3. Re-arrange email addresses in the order you like them to be populated in the Mail Application
4. Set "To",  "CC", "BCC" or "X" labels to individual email addresses.
5. Allows for an optional subject and body text to be set.
6. Sort Groups by Name.
7. Create New Groups from existing groups as a template (i.e., Copy Groups)
   
8. Send picture to groups.

Simple Tutorial:

Create a New Group

• Click on the "+" button at the top-right corner of the screen
  
• Click on the Group Name to enter a New Group Name and optional subject text. Click "Save"
• Click "Add new email from phonebook" and choose an existing contact from the contact. If the chosen contact, has an email address set, a selection list is presented to allow the selection. If no email address is available, an error message is shown.

• Click "Add new email" from the Edit Screen to enter a email address manually. Select the type "Home", "Work" or "Other" label for the email address. Click "Save"
• Click "Add email body text" in the Edit screen to set a default body text for the group. Click "Save" . You can set customized signatures, conference call numbers etc
• Finally, Click "Done" to save the group changes.

Edit an existing Group

• Choose an existing group's detail by clicking on the blue arrow at the right end of the group name.
• On the new Detailed View, click on the "Edit" button at the right corner of the screen.
• Choose, new contacts or edit existing contacts by selecting the appropriate contact cell.

• To delete, an existing email id, click on the red icon on the left side of the email address cell and choose the Delete option.
  
  
• Re-arrange the contact's email address if needed.
• Click "Done" to save your changes.

Note: In Detailed View, touch the individual email address or contact to set the "To",  "CC"  or "BCC" label. Set the label "X" to exclude them from the list. By doing this, you wouldn't have to delete a contact to temporarily exclude them.

Delete an existing Group

• Click on the "Edit" button at the top left corner from the main screen.
• Click on the red icon to the left and choose the delete option.
• Click "Done" to finish your editing changes.

Change Settings for Mail2Group

• Choose the button that resembles a "toolbox"
• Set Confirm to "ON" if you would like to see a confirmation message when you choose a group.
• Set Alpha Sort to "ON", to sort the groups by name.
• Choose "Reply/Forward" mode to "ON" to ignore pre-defined subject and body text set in the group. Hint: Use this mode when you want to forward emails to groups or when you would like to include a group to reply.
• Configure to the SMTP settings if you would like to send pictures to groups.

SMTP Settings

Configure the SMTP settings to be able to send picture to groups.

1. Enter your email address. (ex:johndoe@me.com)
2. Enter your email account password. (Note: passw ords are stored locally on the phone. It is never sent or shared.)
3. Enter smtp host name.
1. For Gmail: smtp.gmail.com
2. For hotmail: smtp.live.com
3. For Mac/me: smtp.mac.com or smtp.me.com
4. Set SSL to "ON". Gmail needs SSL turned ON. It may vary ac
   
   ross different service provider.

Please, contact or refer to your email provider documents to get the smtp host name of your email service provider for any other email accounts.

Sending Picture to Groups

1. Choose the Camera icon on the main screen.
2. Tap the top row once, to show a list of available groups and select a group to send the picture to.
3. Tap the "Choose picture" icon to open the photo library and select a picture.
4. Enter a subject text (optional)
5. Choose the "Send" button.

Note: Once you select a picture, tap the image again to choose a different picture.