Sending HTML Email to Google Contact Groups

Plus an excellent video tutorial on how to code HTML emails.

I scooped this out of the comments at CSS-Tricks.com.  If you want to send a fancy HTML email to a group of recipients from GMail you first need to create it, then send it to yourself at GMail with a much savvier email client.  Commenter Petra explains…

1) I created the HTML mail as described in the video with Thunderbird

2) I send it to myself so it lands in my google mail account

3) I open it there (in the browser) and hit “forward”

4) I erase the little block of text starting with “Forwarding….”

5) I click into the BCC field and type the first letter of the name of my mailing list

6) Google pops the email addresses of that group into the BCC field

7) I add my own emal address in the “to” field, so I get it myself and can see what it looks like

8) I send the mail, wich now looks as if created by a professional mailer program and not created by me in Thunderbaird and then fowarded to google and then send again from there

I am now using the relatively new (and very excellent) Mac application Espresso to code html, but if you are keeping things simple, Thunderbird seems a reasonable (and free) way to go.

[quoted text by Petra in comments of css-tricks.com]