Autocomplete from Contacts?

[Guest]

Unlike Outlook Express, it appears that Windows Mail does use Contacts when
it is doing autocomplete when you are typing in email addresses when
composing an email. Instead it seems to be using some random subset of email
adresses that have been seen by the program (including ones that are obsolete
and deleted from Contacts.. yet missing new ones that have been added to
Contacts). Typing them into the "To" line does not seem to always help. It's
quite unpredictable.

Is there anyway to make Windows Mail just use the contents of the Contacts
folder for autocomplete?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

No, this is one of WM's design defects. It only remembers a
maximum of 29 recently-sent-to recipients.
By contrast, auto-completion works well in WLM.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info. Guess I will switch to WLMail.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I'm sure you'll be pleased. Report back on your impression of WLM.
Note: We are getting hints from Microsoft reps in the WLM newsgroup
that a new public release of WLM is being prepared; I'm guessing two
weeks or less.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[dkat]

No, this is one of WM's design defects. It only remembers a
maximum of 29 recently-sent-to recipients.
By contrast, auto-completion works well in WLM.

Gary VanderMolen

Is there anyway to fix this in the registry? WLM is too top heavy for many
of us. What we really want is OE.
Dee

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]]

No way to fix it in the registry, Windows Mail has been abandoned in favor
of WLM.

Hal
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[Gary VanderMolen]

No, there is no way to fix that limitation in Windows Mail.
Have you tried WLM? It is plenty fast enough for me.

 

[Dave]

If you want OE, you'll have to stick to XP.

If you don't like WM or WLM, then you might take a look at Thunderbird.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
There's a neat Lightning calendar add-on for it.

There's plenty of other email clients out there...