Sending Email to Alternate Address

[John in Minnesota]

Hello, I have several contacts in my Windows Mail Contacts that I have
mutiple e-mail addresses set up. (Using Vista). When I start typing the
contact name in the "Send" window, only the "Preferred" e-mail shows up. How
can I select their alternate e-mail address in the "Send" window?'

I have tried right clicking and just about everyting else. There must be an
easy way to bring up a list of all the e-mails in a contact (both preferred
and the others) so I can then select which one or ones to send the message to.

Thank you in advance for any replies

John in Minnesota

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I don't think there is a way to select alternate email addresses.
For that reason I use separate contacts: John-home, John-work, etc.

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Hello, I have several contacts in my Windows Mail Contacts that I have
mutiple e-mail addresses set up. (Using Vista). When I start typing the
contact name in the "Send" window, only the "Preferred" e-mail shows up.
How
can I select their alternate e-mail address in the "Send" window?'

I have tried right clicking and just about everyting else. There must be
an
easy way to bring up a list of all the e-mails in a contact (both
preferred
and the others) so I can then select which one or ones to send the message
to.

Thank you in advance for any replies

John in Minnesota

In order to do this you would have to have a separate Contact for each
address.
Windows Mail won't use anything but the "Preferred Address".

 

[John in Minnesota]

Thank you for the reply and I understand but here is a direct quote from the
Windows Mail Contact Help screen:

"The preferred e‑mail address is what Windows Mail will use if you want to
send someone e‑mail quickly without selecting from a list of all their
addresses."

Then how does one select "...from a list of all their addresses"? It sounds
as if there is a way to select a list of all addresses entered in the
contact. If not, what is the point of even having the ability to add for
than one e-mail address? It makes no sense!

 

[Dave]

This is one of the things that works in the newer Windows Live Mail.