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Bob Davis
I've been importing records from my business database (Foxpro DBF) to
Outlook's Contacts database for about a week and have run into a snag. One
of the fields contains the contact's email address, and although it appears
to import over to Outlook with no trouble, when I highlight a given Outlook
record and select the New Message to Contact icon, I get the following
error:
"Error creating new mail! This may be caused due to an incorrect e-mail
address for a contact or an invalid name for a distribution list."
Since I have no distribution list, I assume the problem involves the address
itself, even though the contact record has an email address present.
Although I can see the address clearly, Outlook apparently sees only the "."
in the string, as when I hit New > Mail Message, then hit To: to pull the
contacts list, after clicking on the appropriate contact the only character
that moves into the To -> column is the period ("."). It's as if the alpha
and numeric characters of the email address is seen by outlook as a blank
even though it is clearly visible in the record. If I retype the address
exactly as it was before it works perfectly from that point on.
However, if I double-click on a contact containing an unaltered email field,
then hit the New Message to Contact icon within that window, it also works
fine in any case. Any help would be appreciated.
Outlook's Contacts database for about a week and have run into a snag. One
of the fields contains the contact's email address, and although it appears
to import over to Outlook with no trouble, when I highlight a given Outlook
record and select the New Message to Contact icon, I get the following
error:
"Error creating new mail! This may be caused due to an incorrect e-mail
address for a contact or an invalid name for a distribution list."
Since I have no distribution list, I assume the problem involves the address
itself, even though the contact record has an email address present.
Although I can see the address clearly, Outlook apparently sees only the "."
in the string, as when I hit New > Mail Message, then hit To: to pull the
contacts list, after clicking on the appropriate contact the only character
that moves into the To -> column is the period ("."). It's as if the alpha
and numeric characters of the email address is seen by outlook as a blank
even though it is clearly visible in the record. If I retype the address
exactly as it was before it works perfectly from that point on.
However, if I double-click on a contact containing an unaltered email field,
then hit the New Message to Contact icon within that window, it also works
fine in any case. Any help would be appreciated.