Auto complete on e-mail addresses

[Guest]

Windows Mail only shows addresses from the last 29 addresses you
sent messages to. You can click on Tools in the new message box
and then Select Recipients to get your entire Contacts list.

You may prefer to download and install Windows Live Mail, which
does better at completing the addresses:

http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

 

[Dan Meigs]

Does anyone know when MS will fix these ridiculous bugs in Mail? There are
thousands of posts pointing out these problems. Does MS actually care?

Examples:
Autocomplete (who could have thought the last 29 was a good idea?)
File associations (just a bug)
Unable to export address book and preserve Groups (truly perverse)

I copied OE from XP and tried to run it, no luck.
I tried Windows Live Mail but it didn't allow groups within a group.
I tried thunderbird, and didn't like it for reasons I can't recall.
I laughed at somone's serious suggestion to run a dual-boot system with XP
in order to have OE back.

Dan

 

[Dave]

It's unlikely that Windows Mail will be "fixed" because it hasn't been
updated since Vista was released.
The newer Windows Live Mail has been released and updated in that time
period. It appears to be the heir apparent, as it works better.

I suspect that MS realized that OE was hurting their Outlook profits, as
they want you to purchase Outlook.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Your only complaint about WLM is that it doesn't allow groups within a group?
Does Windows Mail allow that? (I haven't tried.)

Windows Mail will not be updated since Microsoft has diverted that development
group to Windows Live Mail.

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Does anyone know when MS will fix these ridiculous bugs in Mail?
Never.

There are
thousands of posts pointing out these problems. Does MS actually care?
No.

Examples:
Autocomplete (who could have thought the last 29 was a good idea?)
File associations (just a bug)
Unable to export address book and preserve Groups (truly perverse)

I copied OE from XP and tried to run it, no luck.
I tried Windows Live Mail but it didn't allow groups within a group.
I tried thunderbird, and didn't like it for reasons I can't recall.
I laughed at somone's serious suggestion to run a dual-boot system with XP
in order to have OE back.