Hi Karl, I used OE (now Vista Mail) for my Personal email and Outlook for
Professional communications. Vista Mail (VM) affords better mail handling
capabilities in many ways.
There are a variety of reasons why I prefer using both email clients but
here is just one. At times I received mail that I want to save but where the
Subject text is not very descriptive. With VM, I can DnD the mail item to the
desktop, edit *.eml file with a Plain Old Text Editor (POTE) to change the
Subject text to something more meaningful and then DnD the revised desktop
version back into VM and then delete the original. Now, when I save it and do
a search for it later, I'm much more likely to find it than before. This
can't be done with Outlook's *.msg format, nor would I want it to be since my
business communications need to retain originality.
The original Contacts were entered in Outlook, which OE then picked up. As
to why I would want to have both programs share the same Contacts list, it's
really a matter of minimizing the potential errors wrought with redundancy.
In my case, many of the people I communicate with on a personal basis, I also
communicate on a professional basis. Thus, having to maintain two Contacts
lists increases the chances of having individual contacts getting out of sync
over time. The ability to share one Contacts list eliminated that concern.
I hope this helps.
"Karl Timmermans" wrote:
> Thks for the response. Excluding the HTML rendering issue, still don't
> understand why you would want to maintain the primary contact list outside
> of Outlook when Outlook is a fully self-contained email client (whether your
> environment was/is "O'2000 & OE" or "O'2007 & Vista Mail"). The
> benefit/purpose of that completely escapes me but I guess you have your
> reason(s) that go beyond migrating completely from OE to Outlook '2000 many
> years ago.
>
> Will ask the question another way, on your original system (O'2000 & OE) -
> in which program was the original contact info entered (OE or Outlook)? What
> was/were the reason(s) and benefit(s) in using a common contact list in both
> of these programs on the same machine on an on-going basis? That's the part
> I have trouble understanding from an operational standpoint - not whether
> you could do it or not.
>
> Karl
> ___________________________________________________
> Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group
> ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0 / Exporter
> "Power contact importers/exporters for MS Outlook '2000/2007"
> http://www.contactgenie.com
>
>
>
> "Sailfish" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:EC490685-6BBF-4C29-B1AB-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >
> >
> > "Karl Timmermans" wrote:
> >
> >> Apologize for previous empty response - hit the wrong button.
> >>
> >> One approach to Outlook contacts with Vista Mail would be to "export"
> >> Outlook contacts to a CSV file and import them into Vista mail.
> >>
> > Yes, but this method would require that I periodically synchronize the
> > Vista
> > Mail contacts as I update my Outlook contacts, something I was hoping to
> > avoid.
> >
> >> Purely from a personal curiousity standpoint, may I ask why on earth
> >> would
> >> you (or anyone) want to use Vista Mail if you also have Outlook '2007 and
> >> thereby impose the need to maintain contact lists in 2 email clients?
> >>
> > Well, until I upgraded to Outlook 2007, from Outlook 2000, (along with
> > Office 2007 and Vista), I didn't need to maintain 2 contacts list, I was
> > able
> > to use Outlooks contacts list within Outlook Express.
> >
> > Another "got ya!" item I'm now finding is that Outlook 2007 decided to
> > throw
> > out all that wonderful standards work that went into IE7 and instead
> > switch
> > to the much hampered Word 2007 renderer. Now all of my HTML email looks
> > gawd-awful. Whereas, Vista Mail still uses (correctly to my way of
> > thinking)
> > the IE engine.
> >
> >> Karl
> >> ___________________________________________________
> >> Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group
> >> ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0 / Exporter
> >> "Power contact importers/exporters for MS Outlook '2000/2007"
> >> http://www.contactgenie.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "Sailfish" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >> news:5C52AE68-7FF5-46EF-A09B-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> >I use both Outllok 2007 and Vista Mail on Vista but am unable to
> >> >determine
> >> > how I can share the Outlook Contacts with Mail? I was able to do this
> >> > fairly
> >> > easily on WinXP and earlier versions of Outlook.
> >> >
> >> > Is there a way to do this that doesn't require me to continually
> >> > synchronize
> >> > one with the other, i.e., for them both to use a common Contacts file?
> >> >
> >> > TIA
> >>
> >>
> >>
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