auto-fill question

[kathryn]

I have had my computer only 4 days and have this Windows Mail question. I
am sure it has been answered before so please don't be upset but just point
me in the right direction.

The auto-fill in in Windows Mail exposes not only the name but the entire
e-mail address to every recipient. I had Outlook Express on my Windows
98SE desktop and the name would appear ie. Bruce, but Bruce's entire e-mail
address did not also appear. Just typing Bruce, Bonnie, Bob, etc., was all
that was seen. Outlook correlated my Address Book names to their
appropriate e-mail address but did not expose it for the world to see. I
find this stunning. I have tried to figure out how to just get the names
in the To: line but it does not appear possible. With Auto-fill not check,
I could type the entire name, ie. Bruce, and I can tell the e-mail would go
no where as it does not recognize the name at all from my list of Address
Book (contacts).

This is boggling my mind. So, please, as a newbie, I ask for your
patience and please let me know how to send e-mails to many recipients at a
time without exposing personal information. It used to be so easy to use
Outlook autofill. I never had to enter my address book, I just started to
type first names and they filled in for me. What a hassle.

Thank you.

 

[Guest]

I have had my computer only 4 days and have this Windows Mail question. I
am sure it has been answered before so please don't be upset but just point
me in the right direction.

The auto-fill in in Windows Mail exposes not only the name but the entire
e-mail address to every recipient. I had Outlook Express on my Windows
98SE desktop and the name would appear ie. Bruce, but Bruce's entire
e-mail address did not also appear. Just typing Bruce, Bonnie, Bob,
etc., was all that was seen. Outlook correlated my Address Book names to
their appropriate e-mail address but did not expose it for the world to
see. I find this stunning. I have tried to figure out how to just get
the names in the To: line but it does not appear possible. With
Auto-fill not check, I could type the entire name, ie. Bruce, and I can
tell the e-mail would go no where as it does not recognize the name at all
from my list of Address Book (contacts).

This is boggling my mind. So, please, as a newbie, I ask for your
patience and please let me know how to send e-mails to many recipients at
a time without exposing personal information. It used to be so easy to
use Outlook autofill. I never had to enter my address book, I just
started to type first names and they filled in for me. What a hassle.

Thank you.

If you managed to leave out the addresses entirely, the email wouldn't
arrive. Outlook Express hid the addresses, but didn't remove them,
and people reading the mail with other email programs could often
still see the addresses. One option is to move the recipient's addresses
to the Bcc: header line, so that each recipient would get only the return
address and their own address on the copy they received. If you don't
see the Bcc: line when composing a new message, click on View, then
All Headers in the new message window. Some email servers refuse
to handle email with an empty To: line, so you may want to copy your
return address to that line.

Also, Windows Mail doesn't use the contacts list (new name for the
address book) for completing addresses. Instead, it uses a separate
list of the last 29 addresses you sent messages to. This list is very
hard to edit; it's easier just to send messages to the 29 addresses you
want on the list.

If you'd rather use the contacts list, start a new message but don't type
any part of the name or address. Instead, click on To:.

 

[Dave]

Windows Mail (and Windows Live Mail) will show both the contact name & the
contact email address. You can't change that.
If you send to multiple recipients, and don't want them to see each other's
email address, use the BCC: field.
If you don't see the BCC field, in the compose window, click on View - Show
All Headers.

If you used to put multiple email addresses in the To: or CC: fields in any
other email program, the recipients were able to see each other's address,
whether you saw it or not.

The auto-complete in Windows Mail just doesn't work correctly.
It keeps a separate list of the last 29 addresses you've typed in, including
bad ones.
This list is kept in the registry (in binary).
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Recently Used Addresses

This is one of the features that works properly in the newer Windows Live
Mail.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Don't confuse what *you* as the message composer sees with what
the recipient might see. What the recipient sees (email address or
just name) is determined by the email program the recipient uses.
You have no control over that.

If for cosmetics (not security) you want the email addresses on the
'To' line to be hidden while composing an email, upgrade to WLM:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

 

[Randomiser]

Outlook Express always included the whole address as well, just not quite so
obviously. It was always there if you looked at the properties of the
message.

If you really want to hide the addressees of your messages you need to use
the Bcc: field - it stands for blind carbon copy and means the addresses are
hidden. The message still has to be sent to someone in the To: field however
and this will be seen by all recipients. If people don't have their spam
filters set up properly Bcc-ed mail sometimes gets junked because it does
not appear to be addressed to them.

If you can't see the Bcc field click View/All Headers in any message you
are sending.

Randomiser