Email contact auto-complete

[Wally]

Ok, so it's well established that if you exported your OE address book
and imported them as contacts in Vista you cannot make us of contact
name auto-complete feature while addressing.

Someone posted that you need to either send an email to these imported
contacts and/or receive an email back from them befoe Vista email will
"remember" them next time for auto-complete to work.

I was thinking - if I disconnected my internet and sent an email to
each of my contacts they'd all go to my outbox waiting for a
connection to send. If I then deleted by outbox would this work as
far as Microsoft's "send once, auto-complete the next time"?

Walter

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Ok, so it's well established that if you exported your OE address book
and imported them as contacts in Vista you cannot make us of contact
name auto-complete feature while addressing.

Someone posted that you need to either send an email to these imported
contacts and/or receive an email back from them befoe Vista email will
"remember" them next time for auto-complete to work.

I was thinking - if I disconnected my internet and sent an email to
each of my contacts they'd all go to my outbox waiting for a
connection to send. If I then deleted by outbox would this work as
far as Microsoft's "send once, auto-complete the next time"?

That might work, if placing a message in the Outbox triggers
the auto-complete to remember as it seems to do when the
message is actually sent. Why not try it with one?

 

[Guest]

Definitely this list here seems to be one (of one or more I know not) of the
generators.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Recently Used Addresses
(double click the values to read them)

My email address, which I had not used before, but is listed in my profile
contact, bought up nothing when I started typing, After sending myself an
email it is now in auto complete (an extra entry was added to that registry
key as well).

Looking through my list it appears only sent mails are included, not
received mails. My bank who I receive mail from frequently but have never
sent any to are not in the list. This is perhaps so all that junk mail
doesn't get into autocomplete.

Also each variant is added to the list, i.e. both name and email are
separate entries, so

"Gary VanderMolen" <[email protected]> gets two entries.

Gary VanderMolen
(e-mail address removed)

I created a contact but nothing was added to the list.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Interesting find! Thanks for sharing that.

Gary VanderMolen