email autofill

[Greg]

In Outlook Express I could fill in the "To:" section by starting to type the
recipients names, and the correct contact from my address book would show
up. This isn't working for me in Windows Mail. Any ideas??

 

[Greg]

Does anyone else have this problem?

 

[Marcos Kleine]

I have the some "issue", this is the way that Windows Mail work, a bug or
just a different way to work, to me windows mail is the worst thing about
Vista, its ironic, cause is the software i use more hehehehe
Seems that only the names you send e-mails on the day show up....

 

[Donald Kaufmann]

Yes I have this problem also. There are so many broken things in WM that I
am keeping a list....I can't remember them all. I work at a major university
and I'm saving the list so I can bring it to the first MS forum they have on
campus. I want to ask someone in person from MS what the heck went wrong
with WM. Did anyone actually test it?

 

[Marcos Kleine]

Windows Mail is horrible! This is one of many problems, i live in Brazil, i
speak Portuguese and on Spell Check i have only French, German, English and
Spanish available, is that a joke of Microsoft with Brazillians users or a
huge major error of the company?

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem but can't find a solution.

 

[Patrick Casher]

Same here I think I'll wait to upgrade my XP Desktop till some of these
isues are corrected.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Yes, I have the same problem.
In a different thread, "mikeyhsd" said

"had the same problem when I imported a WAB from OE.
deleting all the addresses and importing a CSV from OE fixed the problem.
of course that works if you have a CSV of XP OR OE where you can create one."

I haven't had time to try his suggested fix.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Guest]

Same here, I'm tempted to go back to XP, but I like all the other features of
Vista. I'll learn to live with it.

 

[Guest]

Thunderbird is ten times better than Windows Mail.

 

[Julian]

Thunderbird is ten times better than Windows Mail.

Doh! Did you fail math?

Thunderbird can't combine and decode at all
let alone do it well.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

It may be better for some people, for some aspects
But, if you have a lot of email accounts like I do, you'll be
overwhelmed by all the standard folders Thunderbird creates for
each account. WLMD does the same, which is why I won't use it either.
Give me the sparse (screen conserving) nature of OE/WM anytime!

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Guest]

In Outlook Express I could fill in the "To:" section by starting to type the
recipients names, and the correct contact from my address book would show
up. This isn't working for me in Windows Mail. Any ideas??

This is happening for me also for all my imported e-mails. It works correctly for all the New Contacts entered. This means I will have to reenter all my e-mail addresses!! I could scream...