windows mail contacts

[buddah]

how do i prevent all names showing when i click 'to' when sending message? i
only want the folders to display.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Huh?

 

[buddah]

I have created an address book with folders such as 'family', 'business' etc
with contacts in each separate folder.

When I want to create 'new mail' and click on the 'to' button to choose who
to send it to, 'all' the names appear that I have in each folder.

What I wanted was to only see the folders and then choose the contacts I
want from my chosen folder.

Thanks

 

[Dave]

You can't.

(stock reply)
You can create folders for the contacts, but Windows Mail will not show
them when you click on To:, CC: or BCC:

However, you can do it bassackwards if you have folders... open your
Contacts folder, open your sub-folder, select your recipient(s),
right-click, select Action - Send Email

and, you can create Groups, which are mail lists of selected contacts.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Create a new Group containing those contacts then put the Group name in the
TO (or BCC) field.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

How to create and use Contact Groups in Windows Mail:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69738-contact-groups-windows-mail.html

 

[marie_thérèse poupin]

how do i prevent all names showing when i click 'to' when sending message?
i
only want the folders to display.

 

[marie_thérèse poupin]

how do i prevent all names showing when i click 'to' when sending message?
i
only want the folders to display.

 

[Bubey]

Hi PA Bear,
I posted the same problem above (Bubey).
I don't always send an e-mail to all my friends. I pick and choose who to
send
it to each time. It seems with this Windows Mail that we can't do that.
Isn't there
a workaround so it will work more like OE6 where the user could control the
program?
Thanks ! P.S. Take a look at my posting, I still can't get my OE mail &
folders into
Windows Mail.