Contact Folders

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I'm probably beating a dead horse here but... For the life of me I can't
figure out how anyone with a couple hundred contacts in their address book
can possibly use Windows Mail. Without contact folders like OE has this
program is useless to me. I've been mulling over this problem for a a couple
weeks since I got my new laptop with Vista and have decided that Windows Mail
is not going to fit my requirements. Windows Live Mail is not going to work
for me either. The workaround in Windows Live Mail where you can set up a
list and then selectively delete users after the list is in the address line
of the email is not a viable option for me. I could go into a long
explanayion about why but to what end. The only option for me is to have
contact folders back. This Sucks! And, from the messages I've read there are
a lot of unhappy campers out there about this problem

Now a couple questions.

I have Office 2007 Home/Student which includes licenses for three computers
installed on my three home systems.If I buy Outlook, does it come with only
one license? At $110 a pop I don't think I'll be using Outlook unless it
comes with three licenses like Office did.
Does Outlook support contact folders or multiple address books? Or, should I
just go with Thunderbird?
Are there any Outlook issues anyone knows of that would be a problen for a
home user. I've read somewhere that some of the html formating Outlook uses
is not compatible with some web based email servers like gmail, hotmail and
yahoo and some of my contacts are subscribers to those services. Does this
compatibility issue really exist?

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

Under normal circumstances, Office product licenses allow for two
installations, one on your desktop and another on your notebook. Truly, you
need to check with your reseller, there are a number of licensing options
and no one here is likely qualified to answer that question competently.

Outlook supports multiple Contacts folders. Outlook 2007 uses a version of
the Word engine for HTML editing/rendering. The usual reported complaint
with this is that Word lacks some of the rendering capabilities the Internet
Explorer rendering engine has, so some incoming HTML emails don't appear as
intended.

Hal
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[Dot]

Thanks Hal.

I've decided to go with Thunderbird. I don't like it as well as OE which I
"may" still use on my two XP systems but Thunderbird has the capability of
setting up contact lists which allows me to organize my contacts so different
lists can be accessed when addressing an email . If MS ever gets their mail
program back to the 21st. century I will probably change back. This was
definitely a step back for the MS mail application. I wonder how this got
past alpha test let alone beta. Sheeze!

 

[Don]

this post saved me!


For all you fellow losers out there that are running Vista Windows Mail and

 

[Cathie]

Thank you so much.
It's hard to believe we have to do all this tedious stuff just to use the
"new"
Vista Windows Mail (isn't New supposed to mean improved?), but I'm so glad
you shared this work-around. Now I've just got to find the time to set it
all up!
Thanx again! )

 

[Beejaysoo]

This might be the time when everyone who is frustrated with the 'missing'
contacts folder feature from OE express themselves!!! Folders for
organizing contacts was a great feature and should be incorporated into WLM.
Everyone has different groups of contacts....like, family, business, boy
scouts, etc. and folders are very useful when dealing with related specific
interest groups.

Please respond to this post with your comments regarding the need to have
this feature brought into WLM!!!

Thanks,

bj

 

[injun2]

I agree. I probably had more than 20 folders of different contacts, and of
course you never want to send all emails to all the contacts in a group, so
the "Groups" function is, to me worthless. It seems all they have to do to
fix this is to allow you to select a particular folder, say family, from a
drop down box, when you click "Create Mail." I have Outlook for my business,
and that is how that works. Even better, they could just replicate anothe
feature of Outlook, where you categorize your contacts, such as "Vendors"
Clients or whatever categories you come up with. They have the template from
an old program (I use Outlook 2001), so why not use it?

 

[Guest]

They still want to sell you software packages including Outlook, so they
aren't likely to copy many features of Outlook into the programs that
come with Vista or can be downloaded free.

 

[Folkmuse]

I to am returning to Thunderbird after trying windows mail. I had Express and
was happy using it. I also have Outlook 2007 for my main mail address. I used
Express for our music camp mail. I had addresses in folders for a reason and
Windows mail erased all of that.

So to Thunderbird which allows me to work with addresss folders.

I also tried to set up a different address which I had with Express and it
was folded into the main mail address. I truly cannot understand what
Microsoft was thinking when they set up Windows mail.

I often wonder when these programmers write the programs if they are able to
think of what we the consumer has to deal with. I don't have much time to
deal with workarounds, I want a program which is easy to set up and work
with. I run 2 non-profits and a concert series for both. I could if I had
the time and interest perhaps become a geek and do the work arounds but I
don't have that time nor that interest.

For the programers I would ask, can a person with an IQ of 90 work this
program, or more importantly a person who needs this program but has little
time to find the quarks to work around deal with it. I don't want to deal
with it.
Bruce

 

[Dave]

Windows Mail seems to have been thrown together to meet the Vista release
date.
The newer Windows Live Mail probably does what you want, as it has Inboxes,
etc. for each email account you add.