Which Groups does a contact belong to?

[Emilio2000]

I have over 20 different Groups set up. In the good old Outlook Express
Address Book, I could open a Contact and in the "Other" tab. I could see a
list of all the Groups that the person belongs to.

In Windows Mail Contacts. I successfully imported all my Contacts and
Groups. But. is there a way to find out which Groups a person belongs to?
It's too time consuming to manually search through each of my 20 groups.

The Help section claims that Windows Mail has all the features of Outlook
Express. but the list of Groups a person belongs to is obviously missing. It
looks like Microsoft is selling us a degraded product ("Address Book Minus"
instead of "Address Book Plus") and is calling that an improvement!!!! HA!

Please prove me wrong. Show me that I can display a list of Groups for each
person. I rely heavily on Groups. Just for example, if I have multiple
entries for the same person (with different email addresses), I can tell
which one is the most current by looking at which email address is part of a
recently set up Group.

If Microsoft Mail is unable to show me a list of Groups for any one
individual Contact, is there a way I can continue using Outlook Express under
Windows Vista Ultimate x64?

Emilio

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

No, it can't do that, and no, OE can't be installed on Vista.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Gary, for confirming my worst fears (that the Groups for an
individual contact cannot be displayed in Windows Mail). So, what are
my options?

1. Can Windows Live Mail deal with Groups any better? Or

You're likely to get a better answer to this if you ask in the following
newsgroup, which has more Windows Live Mail users:

microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

2. Should I look into Mozilla Thunderbird? Or
3. Should I go back to using Windows XP? Or
4. Is there any hope that a Vista SP2 might bring an imporved version
of Windows Mail any time soon?

Vista SP1 isn't fully released yet, so Vista SP2 is probably a long
way off. Also, Microsoft has apparantly stopped offering improvements
in Windows Mail, preferring to put them in Windows Live Mail
instead.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Windows Live Mail is only slightly better in this regard.
When you right-click on one of its contacts, it offers to copy the
contact to groups, but only shows group names that the contact
is not already a member of.

I'm not familiar enough with other email programs to tell you
whether they handle contacts better. Outlook has a lot of
features, and may do what you want.

Going back to Windows XP is a possibility, but if that computer
was first sold with Vista already on it, you may have a tough time
finding suitable XP drivers for all the hardware.

I have no idea what might be in Vista SP2, but it won't be
improvements for Windows Mail. The latter has pretty much been
abandoned by Microsoft in favor of Windows Live Mail.