Contact groups can't be recipient

[gtxaspec]

https://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/detail?id=1996

this has been an issue that I am starting here based off the abandoned google code issue. From 2010, still updated on that site this year.

In K9 mail, can not select contact groups to send a group email to. Only individual contacts. If a group is selected to send a new email in the contact manager, then k9 selected as email client group data is populated.

but if we try to forward a message, there is no way to select a group. see link above for details.

[cketti]

There's no standard intent to pick a contact group. So to add this feature someone needs to implement a custom UI that offers the option to select both individual contacts and contact groups (not necessarily at the same time).

[TomFernandes]

+1
Not sure if it is possible to vote for this enhancement somewhere else. So I would like to add here that I also miss this feature.

[ghost]

👍

[philipwhiuk]

Contact groups don't exist in Lollipop / Marshmallow. This will require testing on later APIs if it is implemented.

[sgparry]

I have a Samsung Note 4 running Marshmallow (6.0.1) - I have contact groups - is this a Samsung only feature? I cannot see why G would just drop contact groups as a feature...

[PanderMusubi]

Please, also test for contact groups that exit via CardDAV.

[francwalter]

Is that feature request in work, will that be implemented some day?
Or is there another mail client for Android which could handle that?
Forward an email to a group in the address book or define a address group in that client to use it directly as forward recipient?
Thanks.

[tatze]

Contact groups don't exist in Lollipop / Marshmallow. This will require testing on later APIs if it is implemented.

I don't know when this was changed or re-introduced, but in 8.1 / Oreo you can add labels to contacts. For a starter it would help a lot if K9's contact suggestions take the labels into account as well.