Email addresses do not automatically pop up when entering addresse

[TMD]

I'm using Windows mail....when I enter in an addresses only one name from my
address book will pop up for me to choose frrome but I have several names
that should popup...what can I do to get all that should popup to actually
popup...

Excample
I start to type an address that begins with "D" so one name pops up ...Diane
@......
but I have (in address book) Don @..... Dave@..... Debbie@.... David@ .....
etc.....
How can I get all that start with "D" to popup ??

I do have that option checked in Mail (Vista)

Thanks in advance.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Only the last 29 contacts you've used will auto-populate the TO line.

 

[kwilharms]

Does anyone know WHY it only keeps 29? This is VERY frustrating! Any way to
change the settings for that so it will keep more?

 

[Dave]

Why? I don't know, that's how it was designed....

Windows Mail auto-completes from a separate list of 29 addresses YOU TYPE
IN, not from your contacts. This list is stored in the registry.

If you wish to remove old or incorrect addresses, there is a utility to
clear recently used email addresses in Windows Mail...

http://www.winhelponline.com/articl...tly-used-email-addresses-in-Windows-Mail.html

To retrieve addresses from your contacts folder, click on the To: button.

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

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Because all Windows Mail development was stopped by executive fiat when
Vista was still in beta and there were quite a number of outstanding bugs!

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

It can't be fixed in Windows Mail. The only real fix is to upgrade to
Windows Live Mail which doesn't have that limitation:

http://download.live.com/wlmail

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

It *won't* be fixed, you mean?

It can't be fixed in Windows Mail. The only real fix is to upgrade to
Windows Live Mail which doesn't have that limitation:

http://download.live.com/wlmail

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I meant to say that the user can't fix it with a workaround or setting change.
Obviously the developers could fix it if they were tasked to do so.

 

[shandrica]

I'm using Windows mail....when I enter in an addresses only one name from
my
address book will pop up for me to choose frrome but I have several names
that should popup...what can I do to get all that should popup to actually
popup...

Excample
I start to type an address that begins with "D" so one name pops up
...Diane
@......
but I have (in address book) Don @..... Dave@..... Debbie@.... David@
.....
etc.....
How can I get all that start with "D" to popup ??

I do have that option checked in Mail (Vista)

Thanks in advance.