no automatic recipient addresses

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Under vista I no longer get an address or selection of possible addressees
after typing in several characters of the recipient's address. I was told
previously in this forum that this would happen after I entered the
addressee's name three times. I've done that many times over and still no
auto recognition. What's up?
 
Apparantly it only remembers the last 29 addresses. On my W.M it only seems
to remember the last 29 that I reply to. Therefore some will drop out to make
way for the latest ones that you reply to. Not like good old Outlook Express
where it remembered all the contacts. That's progress for you!!!!
 
It may be a stupid question but what is Live Mail? Why should I upgrade to
it? How much does it cost?
 
It's a similar desktop email program, and it's free. It's the apparent
replacement for WM, as WM has not been updated in over a year. In addition
to POP & IMAP accounts, WLM can also access Hotmail.
 
In addition to what Dave said, WLM has many more features than WM:

Real-time spell checker (like in Outlook, it marks typos immediately
with a red squiggly underline).

Auto-correction of commonly misspelled words (changes 'teh'
to 'the', and 'i' to 'I').

Better auto-completion when typing in recipients.

Contacts group feature is more flexible.
 
Windows Mail doesn't use the contacts list for completing addresses.
Instead, it uses a separate list of the last 29 addresses you sent
messages to. This list is very hard to edit; it's easier just to send
messages to the 29 addresses you want on the list.

If you'd rather use the contacts list, start a new message as usual
but don't type any part of the address. Instead, click on To:.
 
Then you're getting a response different from most of the people who
post here. There's a possibility that having some version of Outlook
helps.
 
That has nothing to do with the auto-complete function.
Auto-complete means you start typing a name or email address on
the To line, and the email program shows you all the matches it
knows about. The number of matches gets smaller as you type more.

You're talking about something different that happens after you
click on Send.
 
The only reasonable solution I've detected, short of changing my mailing
sub-system, is to type the name I want in the TO or CC list in the FIND
Section that pops up when you select TO. I don't know what specs MS used to
"upgrade" the mail to vista but they certainly were short-sighted and
non-user-friendly after XP
 
I fully agree. Although this is now quite an old thread, and having just
upgraded to a new laptop with Vista pre-loaded, this lack of functionality
with my contact addresses, previously a norm in Outlook Express, is a pain.
Do we know if these messages are read by the Microsoft boffins and if they
are addressing the issue?
 

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