Thunderbird – How to Send an Email to a Group Excluding a Member

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I use Thunderbird on my MacBook-Pro and sync my contacts from gmail to Mac OS X's address book, then I make some groups of friends in my address book, in Thunderbird I can use this group in send field and send one mail to all of them but my problem is when some one from the group emails me and I want forward this mail to group I want this mail not send to sender again(or not send to some specific one). Indeed I want something like minus command: or something like this "exclude" , "except" , … .

send to: Groups - (sender and person 1 and person 13)

Can I do this? Or is there any way I can handle it?

P.S: If in thunderbird it's impossible in what mail client I can do this? in gmail itself is it possible?

P.S2: I have a list with lots of people and each time I want exclude some of them (not specific member) therefor I don't want making new list of users each time.

Best Answer

The Thunderbird 1.5 - 2.0.0.* add-on called NotTo-say will do what you want. NotTo, as the title says, enables you to avoid sending mail to specific recipients.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4935/

The extension works in two levels:

  1. When you compose the mail you can mark an address to be NotTo address by selecting "NotTo" from the drop down box next to the addresses box. When sending the mail, it won't send to the addresses you've specified. This is useful when you have a mailing list containing a lot of recipients and you wish to avoid sending the mail to specific individuals.
  2. A new forward command is added to the forward menu button: "NotTo Forward". It acts as a regular forward, but in addition puts the sender in a NotTo address. This is useful when you want to forward a mail to a mailing list (like friends) which includes the original sender. You wouldn't want sending the mail back to him/her.

Acknowledgments goes to Noa Rotstein for this idea.

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