windows mail

[mark]

When in Windows Mail and setting up contacts i can put them in several
folders, like business, government, friends, client contacts ect., but when i
want to send out an email and have it go to certain people in say my
government file, i have to go through a list of several thousand names to
find them. I know I can set up contact groups and have done so, but
sometimes you may not want to send them to all the people in that group. In
my old outlook program, before my computer crashed, i had several folders
that I could actually go into from the "to" "cc" or "bcc" setting and send to
certain people. How do I set this new one up for that? Any ideas??? Or is
there a better program out there to use??? Perhaps I am beating myself up
for nothing.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

First of all, the free email programs are not going to have all the
features that Outlook has.

That said, Windows Live Mail has a more flexible contact groups
feature than WM. In WLM, you can expand a group on the To line
and (for that message) delete some of the contacts from the group.
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

Unfortunately, the import process does not preserve the group
assignments.

 

[Guest]

When in Windows Mail and setting up contacts i can put them in several
folders, like business, government, friends, client contacts ect., but
when i
want to send out an email and have it go to certain people in say my
government file, i have to go through a list of several thousand names to
find them. I know I can set up contact groups and have done so, but
sometimes you may not want to send them to all the people in that group.
In
my old outlook program, before my computer crashed, i had several folders
that I could actually go into from the "to" "cc" or "bcc" setting and send
to
certain people. How do I set this new one up for that? Any ideas??? Or
is
there a better program out there to use??? Perhaps I am beating myself up
for nothing.

Do you still have your CDs for Outlook and an unused license for it?
If so, you might try installing it under Vista. Versions 2003 and later
work well under Vista; version 2002 works but with a few problems;
I'm not sure if version 2000 also works but with even more problems.

 

[mark]

Looked it up and that was a big help, thank you. Should I look at wlm as
well? Would it be better to use? Meaning less steps or don't try it. I
also am getting a problem sometimes, not all the time, when I send a message
back out, that my stmp server is not responding? Would this be a problem
with my security programs? Thought I read that somewhere and if so, how do I
fix it?

 

[mark]

Thank you. Before I type in over a thousand addresses I wanted to make sure
I use the right program. This time I need to find a way to back up contacts.
I thought I saw that somewhere. Thanks you have been a big help.

 

[Guest]

You might look here and see if it looks worth trying:

http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

For the problem, you're more likely to get help for it if you show us
the entire error message, not just a summary of it. Also, what if any
antivirus programs do you have? Some of them create problems
occasionally even if they are disabled. Some of them work better
if email scanning is disabled.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

It doesn't hurt to try WLM since you don't have to make a
commitment to it. If you don't like it, merely uninstall, and WM
is back as your default email program. You can even use both
programs simultaneously, as I have been doing for the last 10
months.

Which antivirus are you running? Most versions of McAfee and
Norton security software cause problems with Windows Mail.