I like to use the groups feature of Gmail to quickly send an email to a certain group of people that are generally always included on certain emails. For instance, I have a Family group so I can quickly email everyone in my family. This is really convenient, but it always puts all the addresses in the "To" field. I have other groups where I always want to CC certain people, while others should be in the "To" field. Is there a way to create a group in Gmail where one or more of the addresses are automatically put in the "CC" field instead of the "To" field?
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On the old version of contacts, in the list of contacts you can see what groups they're each in on the right hand side:
Contacts that are in no groups show an empty space.
Disclaimer: this is how it appears in my normal Gmail account.
There isn't a way to auto-prefix subjects based on emailing a contact group. Note: This is different from Google Groups.
When you decide to email all/some people in a group, GMail will individually add each of those people to the To: line of the email.
Since I was on the kick, I tried setting up an email group (group@my-domain.com) in my Google Apps for Business account. And while you can add members/owners to the list from there, you cannot customize the subject line for Apps for business accounts either.
However, using the Google Email groups from within apps may solve your issue. You can set it up so that people are only replying to that group email (group_1@your-domain.com). This will make your replying easier and also make filtering a snap as well as not forgetting to include someone.
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Best Answer
Contacts are just addresses and groups are just collections of contacts. Unless you write a plugin to read user defined fields from the contacts api, I don't believe that you would be able to selectively designation a contact as 'to' or 'cc'.
Otherwise, I would suggest creating two subgroups: one for the 'to's and another for the 'cc's. Remember that contacts can be members of multiple groups. So all of them can still be members of a 'Family' group.