Outlook Express Address line issue

[Mark S.]

When I enter the first letters of an email recipient's name, a selection of
possible recipients appears in a box beneath the To: line. I appreciate this
feature, but I would like to eliminate one of these alternative recipients,
which is not even in my contacts list. How do I eliminate this unwanted
recipient's address? Perhaps this box that appears is simply a history of
sent/received emails beginning with that particular letter -- if so, how do I
edit this history?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Dave]

Do you mean in Windows Mail (not OE)?
If so, the auto-completions doesn't work correctly. When it does work, it
only remembers the last 29 addresses typed in.
To edit or to remove them requires editing the Registry, and the names are
stored in binary.
It's best to ignore them until they drop off the list.

Or switch to the newer Windows Live Mail, which works much better.

If you do mean Outlook Express, then I dunno.

 

[Mark S.]

Sorry, Dave, I did mean Windows Mail. How long does it take for them to "drop
off the list"? Does Windows Live Mail look like Windows Mail or is it
entirely different? If I did change over, would I be able to take all of my
contacts information?

Mark

 

[Dave]

The way I understand it to work, as you type in new addresses, the existing
ones will get bumped off. So, depending on where yours is sitting in the
queue, it may take 29 new ones...

WLM looks very much like WM, except it has separate Inboxes, etc. for each
email account. So if you have several accounts, this takes up a lot of
space.
When you install WLM, it should automatically import all of your WM contacts
and email messages. It will also remove the shortcuts to WM, although it
won't delete the program or delete your messages and contacts there.
The newsgroup for WLM is microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop
(despite the fact that "desktop" is no longer in the program name)

 

[Guest]

It takes as long as it takes you to send mail to 29 different addresses,
however long that happens to be.

One difference is that if you have multiple email accounts, WLM keeps
the messages from each of them in a separate set of folders, instead of
combining them in one set of local folders the way WM does.

Another is that WLM can access email servers that use the HTTP
protocol; WM can't.

 

[Mark S.]

Thanks for the information, Robert and Dave. On Daveès suggestion, I have
replaced WM with WLM and can see its advantages. As for the multiple email
accounts, two or three people could use the same computer and receive their
emails in their individual email boxes, I assume. I never did understand why
on WM all email, regardless of the multiple accounts, ended up in the same
place: so much for privacy. One really annoying feature of MW did, however,
follow me to WLM: the strange replacement of the apostrophe by the French
accented 'e' ; and stangely enough, as I just tried to place the wedge-shaped
brackets around the e, I discovered that the left-hand wedge gives the
apostrophe (or single quotation mark) and the right-hand wedge gives the
double quoatation mark. The question mark, showing its own eccentricity,
gives the capital French accented fifth letter (É). Is there ANY solution to
this bizarre behaviourÉ

Mark

 

[Mark S.]

Further to my last email about the appearance of French letters. From someone
else's query in this discussion area I found out how to solve the problem
that has plagued me for a long, long time. Actually getting to the "Add an
input language" page in Windows Help and Support really did the trick.

Thanks for your help re. the email issues.

 

[Guest]

You're welcome.

Further to my last email about the appearance of French letters. From
someone
else's query in this discussion area I found out how to solve the problem
that has plagued me for a long, long time. Actually getting to the "Add
an
input language" page in Windows Help and Support really did the trick.

Thanks for your help re. the email issues.