Contacts use when addressing a Mail message

[Billy]

Under Outlook Express (windowsXP) when entering the address all one had to
do was to click on To: and the Select Recipients menu would appear with the
Main Identity's contacts with a selection arrow to choose a folder of
Grouped address to allow a person to make his choices to the various message
recipients.
When trying to do this with the mail program in Vista all I get is all the
contacts and no selections of Grouped address folders to open like Outlook
Express (windowsXP). Is this normal or what am I doing wrong.
Billy

 

[Guest]

Under Outlook Express (windowsXP) when entering the address all one had to
do was to click on To: and the Select Recipients menu would appear with
the Main Identity's contacts with a selection arrow to choose a folder of
Grouped address to allow a person to make his choices to the various
message recipients.
When trying to do this with the mail program in Vista all I get is all the
contacts and no selections of Grouped address folders to open like Outlook
Express (windowsXP). Is this normal or what am I doing wrong.
Billy

Windows Mail does not handle importing contact groups from Outlook
Express. It does allow you to create contact groups, but when you use
them, you don't have any choice of which group members to send mail
to if you include the group at all.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I suggest you upgrade to Windows Live Mail which has a better
contacts feature.
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

 

[Billy]

Windows Mail does not handle importing contact groups from Outlook
Express. It does allow you to create contact groups, but when you use
them, you don't have any choice of which group members to send mail
to if you include the group at all.

To: Robert
I kind of knew this by experimentation and not a solution. Thanks for the try.


To: jhhorwitz
That look like a work around solution that fixes what Robert said about creating contact groups and I can live with that.
Many times with a group of address one want to temporary drop a person off of just that mailing. Thanks for the tip.

To: Gary
I have been at microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop Newsgroups and that program has its problems also.
I was moving my Outlook Express files from my laptop windowXP and been working the last week trying to get the mail program to work like my OE. I on of the pack rats so save a lot of email some back to 1999 when I first started to my email files are some where between 1.5 and 2 GBs. To handle my email I use Message Rules for Mail and only have gone through about 1/2 of the rules I had (about 160) plus the address problems so I do not want to change to an unknown program till I have this mail program up and running and able to back it up before trying Windows Live Mail. I was happy with OE wish I could run it on Vista I must admit the junk filter on mail works well. I am not happy with Microsoft say that Mail is new and better program keeping the old features with new and improved features, Just like the soaps manufacturer say about their products and all the did was change the box. Well I have vented my spleen enough. When I have mail up and running and some time free I will give windows live mail a try, it maybe a necessary to use my hotmail account like OE handled it. Thanks
Billy

 

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

I guess my real question is (ta-da!):

Does anyone know if it is possible and, if so, how to do it, to install
Outlook Express and Address Book from Windows XP onto a Vista System?

If we can do that, we will only have 100 other bad things about Vista
to fix!!

You can't.

 

[Dave]

No, you can't install OE on Vista.
You can import OE's address book into Windows Mail or Windows Live Mail.

 

[Dave]

I never used OE for email, so the change doesn't bother me. I used Eudora
before it came out, and use Thunderbird now for most of my email. I just
use WM and WLM for testing purposes, and reading these MS newsgroups.
You might try the newer Windows Live Mail, which works better, and has been
updated since Windows Mail was released.

 

[Guest]

DAVE,

Thanks. Is Live Mail a standalone program (i.e., not connected to any
particular service)? What does it do for addresses (or contacts, if you
will). I have about 1700 of them!

JERRY

Windows Live Mail is a standalone program. If you want more
information about it, you can find more people who already use
it in newsgroup:

microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

 

[Dave]

WLM is a standalone program, although you can access Hotmail/Live accounts
with it, and it can connect to Live Messenger.
When you install it, it will import all of your messages and contacts from
Windows Mail. It keeps it's own folder of contacts.

 

[Clarity]

Windows Mail does not handle importing contact groups from Outlook
Express. It does allow you to create contact groups, but when you use
them, you don't have any choice of which group members to send mail
to if you include the group at all.