Address Book Problem!!

[Hakan BAHADIR]

Hi...

My company uses Exchange Server for mailing system. There is a shared
address book for company but I made a personel one for me in my computer.
Then I made it visible as address book for new messages.
Then I noticed something strange. When I try to select recipents addresses
from the list, the person who has a business fax number appears twice. One
contains fax number and the other e-mail address.

I tried to understand exact reason and opened my address book.

Name Type
Ahmet Sayin SMTP
Ahmet Sayin FAX

If I delete the lines with "Type: Fax" I lose the information for fax. Why
Outlook thinks that we can send e-mail to a fax number? How can I set my
software using SMTP for all contacts.

Hakan BAHADIR

 

[Hakan BAHADIR]

Thanks a lot

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>, iletide þunu yazdý
| Because fax numbers are valid electronic addresses to which Outlook can
send
| messages. The standard behavior for the Outlook Address book is to display
| all electronic addresses (both fax and e-mail). That behavior cannot be
| changed. The only way to prevent the display of fax numbers is to store
them
| in a different field or to disguise them (e.g., precede them with an alpha
| character) so that Outlook won't recognize them as phone numbers.
| There are also a number of utilities available that can do this for you
| automatically. Some are listed here:
| http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/nofax.htm
|
|
|
| --
| Russ Valentine
| [MVP-Outlook]
| | > Hi...
| >
| > My company uses Exchange Server for mailing system. There is a shared
| > address book for company but I made a personel one for me in my
computer.
| > Then I made it visible as address book for new messages.
| > Then I noticed something strange. When I try to select recipents
addresses
| > from the list, the person who has a business fax number appears twice.
One
| > contains fax number and the other e-mail address.
| >
| > I tried to understand exact reason and opened my address book.
| >
| > Name Type
| > Ahmet Sayin SMTP
| > Ahmet Sayin FAX
| >
| > If I delete the lines with "Type: Fax" I lose the information for fax.
Why
| > Outlook thinks that we can send e-mail to a fax number? How can I set my
| > software using SMTP for all contacts.
| >
| > Hakan BAHADIR
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Because fax numbers are valid electronic addresses to which Outlook can send
messages. The standard behavior for the Outlook Address book is to display
all electronic addresses (both fax and e-mail). That behavior cannot be
changed. The only way to prevent the display of fax numbers is to store them
in a different field or to disguise them (e.g., precede them with an alpha
character) so that Outlook won't recognize them as phone numbers.
There are also a number of utilities available that can do this for you
automatically. Some are listed here:
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/nofax.htm