“Gmail used to have the functionality of choosing which of a contact’s multiple addresses are to be added to a group (rather than only the first one). I had lots of problems sending group emails to the field hockey team I was coaching as players checked their different email addresses at different times.

The best (and only) way to use this functionality of choosing from multiple email addresses for contacts when creating new groups is, firstly make sure your Contacts are up to date – merge any double-ups etc using the Merge Contacts function (which appears when you select more than one contact from your search results). Delete any obsolete email addresses for your contacts;

THEN click on the ‘older version’ link at the very bottom of the gmail page. This will take you to the older version of gmail which still has the (far better) group contacts functionality;

THEN go to Groups, choose the email group you were creating and as you type contact’s names into the large search box and the older style autocomplete will come up with their multiple email address, which you can then select and have added to the Group.

Once you have finished, save the Group and then go back the current version of gmail.

Problem solved but only as long as the older version of gmail accessed by the link, is still accessible. I suggest Google combined the functionality of the older version with the new version. After all, despite what SN says, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”.

Great workaround to a silly problem.

Great information. Gmail is lacking is the ability to send an email to multiple addresses for a single contact when using groups and each child has two parents with seperate email addresses.