auto complete of e-mail addresses

[radio]

I cannot get the auto-complete of addresses to work. Some of the addresses go
in once I start typing them in,but others have to be typed in manually. I
have the tab marked to fill them in automatically. Help. Thanks

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Only the last 29 contacts to whom you sent an email will be available via
AutoComplete.

 

[radio]

What if I want to send an e-mail to someone for the first time? It will not
automatically complete it for me.

 

[radio]

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broadcast

Only the last 29 contacts to whom you sent an email will be available via
AutoComplete.

 

[Chuck]

After installing IE8 I can't open photos or I'm getting a can't open previous
email attachments. How to delete 8 and return to IE7. I'm not a computer
wizz. If the maker would improve the quality instead of coming out with a new
product every year maybe we could enjoy and learn how to use a system but
that doesn't make more money. This lousy quality is wearing me down. chuck

 

[Rainald Taesler]

What if I want to send an e-mail to someone for the first time? It
will not automatically complete it for me.

LOL
How could the system know what you want to type?
There's no crystal ball built-in <bg>.

In the long run it will pay if you create contacts and select the
addresses from there.

Rainald

 

[radio]

Should it not use the info in the contact list?

 

[Rainald Taesler]

After installing IE8 I can't open photos or I'm getting a can't open
previous email attachments. How to delete 8 and return to IE7. I'm
not a computer wizz. If the maker would improve the quality instead
of coming out with a new product every year maybe we could enjoy and
learn how to use a system but that doesn't make more money. This
lousy quality is wearing me down.

Why are you jumping on someone else's thread which has absolutely
nothing to do with *your* problem - and hijacking it??
As far as the attachment problem is concerned there are dozens of
threads which you might easily have detected with a tiny little bit of
care ...

Yes, there is a problem with attachments (I call it the IE8-WinMail bug)
which affects quote some systems (not the majority, however). So far no
one knows what might be the resin and there is no fix available - except
uninstalling IE8. The latter will automatically IE7 again.

The problems can be reduced to JPG and TXT files (all other files types
opening fine with a workaround):
Right-click on the shortcut that you use to open Windows Mail.
Select Properties. In the field labeled 'Start in' change the entered
value to %UserProfile%.
Click OK.
Restart Windows Mail and try opening attachments.

JPGs and TXTs can be opened after saving them.

On how to uninstall IE8 pls see
KB Article 957700: How do I uninstall or remove Internet Explorer
8?http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700/en-us

HTH
Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

radio wrote:
[...]

Should it not use the info in the contact list?

Can't say if it "should" <g>.
It does simply not work this way.

But one can get very close to what you want.
If an address is already available as a "contact" one can just type a
few letters in the address field an leave out the rest - f.e. just "mil"
for "George Miller".
I one clocks in the "send" icon, the system will look up the names in
the contacts and if there are several matches one gets prompted with a
dialog to select the one wanted.

I for one hardly ever type in a name in the address field. I just click
on "To:" and then select the name from the contacts list with 2 or 3
letters.

HTH
Rainald

 

[Dave]

It should... but it doesn't.
That's why MSFT has replaced Windows Mail with Windows Live Mail.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

radio wrote:

It should... but it doesn't.

I take the liberty to doubt that it "should".

That's why MSFT has replaced Windows Mail with Windows Live Mail.

ROFLMAO

This really is the silliest reason I ever heard <g,d&r>

Rainald

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

It will auto-complete even the first time if you upgrade to Windows Live Mail:

http://download.live.com/wlmail

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I take the liberty to doubt that it "should".


ROFLMAO

This really is the silliest reason I ever heard <g,d&r>

Well, obviously that wasn't the only reason.
The level of bugs and shortcomings in Windows Mail was probably a part
of the decision process that resulted in a total rewrite (Windows Live Mail).

 

[Dave]

I take exception to your liberty. ;-)
Any email program should auto-complete from the stored addresses, if that's
how it's configured.

I didn't mean to imply that this was the "only" reason for the
deprecation/lack of support/replacement of WM.
I omitted "...one of the many reasons.."

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I take exception to your liberty. ;-)

Any email program should auto-complete from the stored addresses, if
that's how it's configured.

I really can't say.
It never ever bothered me and the first time I ever noticed that there
might possibly be such kind of feature was this very thread <bg>.

This feature would really be the last thing on my mind ;-)

I didn't mean to imply that this was the "only" reason for the
deprecation/lack of support/replacement of WM.
I omitted "...one of the many reasons.."

I'd go even far further:
What's discussed in this thread is just in a tiny little glitch (if at
all).
One of the glitches which always appear with any kind of software.

And for sure not any reason at all for making decisions on future
development.

This beast called "Live Mail" was/is part of MS' *strategical*
decisions, regardless of any possible bugs and/or shortcomings in
existing applications.
Those making such decisions never ever care about such absolutely minor
things as the issue we are discussing her.

The results are just awful.

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Well, obviously that wasn't the only reason.

Do you really think that this tiny little glitch might have been a
reason at all?

The level of bugs and shortcomings in Windows Mail was probably a part
of the decision process that resulted in a total rewrite (Windows
Live Mail).

Certainly there were some shortcomings (mostly inherited from the aged
OE). And some bugs too. None, however, which I would call serious or a
show-stopper.

IMHO creating this obscure thing called "Live Mail" was just a
management decision following the "in general" strategies of basing
things in the "net" - as had been exposed by Bill Gates himself almost a
dozen of years ago and now continued with all of the other "Live" stuff
(including the "Office Love" strategies) .

As an insider you know more in the internal discussions than me.
But I really doubt that any bug in OE and its younger brother WinMail
might have any influence at all in the decision of following the "Love"
route.

Just my 2 cents.

Rainald

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Nope.

What if I want to send an e-mail to someone for the first time? It will
not
automatically complete it for me.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

To avoid confusion, please begin a new thread about your specific problems,
Chuck. State your full Windows version (e.g., Vista SP2) in your first
post.
--
IE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002

After installing IE8 I can't open photos or I'm getting a can't open
previous email attachments. How to delete 8 and return to IE7. I'm not a
computer wizz. If the maker would improve the quality instead of coming
out
with a new product every year maybe we could enjoy and learn how to use a
system but that doesn't make more money. This lousy quality is wearing me
down. chuck

<SNIP>