folders in contacts not available in email

[Guest]

I have organized my contacts into folders, but when i write a new email
message, and go to address it, the email addresses just show up as a huge
list of names. The folders are nowhere to be seen. They are definately
there in the contacts area, but just not available to me right now in an
email.

How do i fix this??

S.

 

[DGuess]

I have organized my contacts into folders, but when i write a new email
message, and go to address it, the email addresses just show up as a huge
list of names. The folders are nowhere to be seen. They are definately
there in the contacts area, but just not available to me right now in an
email.

How do i fix this??

You don't fix it because there isn't a fix. They are aware of it.

 

[dev]

/sgold/ said:

I have organized my contacts into folders, but when i write a new email
message, and go to address it, the email addresses just show up as a huge
list of names. The folders are nowhere to be seen. They are definately
there in the contacts area, but just not available to me right now in an
email.

How do i fix this??

See if this helps...
http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/

 

[Guest]

I did the same with folders. I created a folder named Friends.
When I compose new mail, and click the To button the whole list shows up
also, but the folders I created are also listed (i.e. Friends). I click to
highlight Friends and click the TO Recipients button and all contacts I have
in the Friends folder are listed in the To on the email.

 

[mikeyhsd]

isn't that what you would expect.
if you do not want the list to appear in the TO then use the Bcc instead.and out your address in the TO

by the way you reference FOLDERS, do you mean GROUPS.



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I did the same with folders. I created a folder named Friends.
When I compose new mail, and click the To button the whole list shows up
also, but the folders I created are also listed (i.e. Friends). I click to
highlight Friends and click the TO Recipients button and all contacts I have
in the Friends folder are listed in the To on the email.

 

[Guest]

No, I meant Folder. I created a folder in the Contacts screen
(Contacts/Organize/New Folder) and named it. Then I created a Group and
named it to match the folder. I left-clicked on the Group and the Properties
box came up. I selected Add to Contact Group and selected recipients to add
to the Group and okayed out. Next, from the Contacts screen, I dragged those
selected recipients to the Folder I had created.
I did this for newsletters I receive and for Friends I email frequently.
For the newsletters, I opened the Mags folder, right-clicked on the recipient
name, selected Properties then Hidden. I have the Group name Mags so I don't
forget I have those email addresses in case I might need to email one of
them. I can open the Folder Mags, right-click on an individual address and
select Action/Send E-Mail. And all those magazine addresses do not show up
when I click the To when composing. The explaination has taken longer than
setting it up did, but I hope this has been informative in some way KJW

 

[12-Volt Man]

You are using folders instead of groups, Windows Mail does not work that
way. I did the same thing when I first set Windows Mail up. What you need
to to is change the contacts folder view template to "contacts". To do
this, open your contacts, right click in the background of the right-hand
pane and choose "Customize this folder". Then choose "contacts" as the
folder template and apply the change. You will then see then "New contact
group" from the menu above. If you will use this to complete your mailing
list you will be good to go.

Windows Mail is working perfectly for me. Other than not being able to
synchronize contacts and calendar with my Phone I do not miss Outlook 2003.

Good luck!

Pete

 

[Guest]

You are using folders instead of groups, Windows Mail does not work that
way. I did the same thing when I first set Windows Mail up. What you need
to to is change the contacts folder view template to "contacts". To do
this, open your contacts, right click in the background of the right-hand
pane and choose "Customize this folder". Then choose "contacts" as the
folder template and apply the change. You will then see then "New contact
group" from the menu above. If you will use this to complete your mailing
list you will be good to go.

Windows Mail is working perfectly for me. Other than not being able to
synchronize contacts and calendar with my Phone I do not miss Outlook 2003.

Good luck!

Pete

 

[Guest]

Sorry, I'm new at this. I am having the same problem that sgold described.
I tried what you wrote, but I did not then see a "new contact group". If I
can accomplish this, will I be able to "Create Mail", go to Tools and hit
Select Recipient and be able to select a name from a "folder" or inside a new
contact group. I don't want to send to the entire folder or group. I have
many organizations I work with. I will end up with probably 10 names in 10
folders. When I go to send an e-mail now, I have to find my way through 100
plus names. It is very dishearting. Any help would be appreicated.

 

[Guest]

I agree with Georgian. I, too, have numerous firms/organizations that I deal
with and I organize my email contacts by the firm/organization. I do not
always mail to the same person within the organization, and I rarely email
everyone in the organization. I much preferred the way you could set up
FOLDERS for contacts in OE -- and I do not mean groups, I mean folders.
Having to scroll through a list of some 100 names to find the correct
recipient each time I send an email is a real pain. I wish Microsoft would
fix this ASAP. For myself, I plan to check out Mozilla's Thunderbird email
program to see if it is better. I think Vista is great, and Windows Mail
would be equally great if they added back the ability to sort contacts into
folders as could be done with Outlook Express.
DC
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[Dale]

I was able to set up contact folders, open contacts and from the toolbar
select organize, new folder.

 

[Guest]

Dale, I did exactly what you suggested and set up a couple of folders with
2-3 people in each folder. Then I went to "create mail" and hit the "to"
button, but the folders do not show up! Not much good having the folders if
you cannot access them when you want to address mail. This is so
frustrating. I can only hope that the Service Pack MS is issuing soon will
fix this. Thanks for trying.

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[Jess Aynes]

I recently discovered the same problem in sending mail and not being able
to see the right mail list when selecting "To" when sending mail. Please try
this: While in the create mail mode, select Tools, then Windows Contacts.
After selecting all contacts and folders that were available, right click and
select properties. Hopefully you find that the "hidden" property box is
selected. Un-select this box and all of the files will be visible when "To"
is selected when creating mail.