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Outlook seems to be frightened of email addresses. It does everything it can
to hide them and make sure that you are incapable of working with them.
Instead, everything is handled via an alias. This causes a problem when you
don't know what the alias is and only have a partial email address.
For example, you cannot search the Address Book for an email address. You
can search for a name, a company, a title, a phone number, everything except
the actual email address you're trying to send to. If I am trying to find
that information and all I have is the email address, how am I supposed to
find the entry?
Too, when you are searching messages, you cannot search for an email address
through your personal folders. That is, if you know that you received an
email from (e-mail address removed), putting that in the "From" box of Advanced
Find doesn't actually find any emails from "(e-mail address removed)." Instead,
you need to use the alias, "Jane Lane," in order to find messages. Outlook
seems to be able to find messages via email address on the Exchange Server,
but not if you've pulled those messages to your own personal folder.
Why is Outlook afraid of email addresses? That's the most important part of
email: The address. Being able to associate an alias to an email address is
nice and often convenient, but I need to be able to work with the raw email
address. Every email has a header stuffed with email addresses. Let me
search through it for a specific address (which means adding "Header" to the
"In" dropdown of the Advanced Find box). Every Address Book entry is
attached to an email address. Let me search through it.
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to hide them and make sure that you are incapable of working with them.
Instead, everything is handled via an alias. This causes a problem when you
don't know what the alias is and only have a partial email address.
For example, you cannot search the Address Book for an email address. You
can search for a name, a company, a title, a phone number, everything except
the actual email address you're trying to send to. If I am trying to find
that information and all I have is the email address, how am I supposed to
find the entry?
Too, when you are searching messages, you cannot search for an email address
through your personal folders. That is, if you know that you received an
email from (e-mail address removed), putting that in the "From" box of Advanced
Find doesn't actually find any emails from "(e-mail address removed)." Instead,
you need to use the alias, "Jane Lane," in order to find messages. Outlook
seems to be able to find messages via email address on the Exchange Server,
but not if you've pulled those messages to your own personal folder.
Why is Outlook afraid of email addresses? That's the most important part of
email: The address. Being able to associate an alias to an email address is
nice and often convenient, but I need to be able to work with the raw email
address. Every email has a header stuffed with email addresses. Let me
search through it for a specific address (which means adding "Header" to the
"In" dropdown of the Advanced Find box). Every Address Book entry is
attached to an email address. Let me search through it.
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This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...9fafaea2e&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general