Mail & To e-mail adresses (auto-complete??)

[New Vista User in E PA]

In Tools-Options-send tab I have checked "automatically complete e-mail
adresses " , but it does not consistently complete e-mails adresses once i
start typing. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't on adresses in my
contacts list.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

That's a known design shortcoming with Windows Mail.
That, and many other things, have been fixed in the replacement
program, Windows Live Mail:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

 

[Guest]

In Tools-Options-send tab I have checked "automatically complete e-mail
adresses " , but it does not consistently complete e-mails adresses once i
start typing. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't on adresses in my
contacts list.

Windows Mail doesn't use the contacts list for completing email addresses.
Instead, it uses a separate list of the last 29 addresses you sent messages
to.

If you'd rather use the contacts list, start a new message as usual, except
don't type any part of the address. Instead, click on To:.