Windows Mail - Four Crazy Things

[Guest]

Please, please prove me wrong here!

1. You cannot copy a contact to an email. I get the "hey what is ABCs email
address?" all the time and I cannot just go into contacts find the address
and copy/paste to an email as was possible in OE.

2. The way WM guesses address names is weird. You type in BOB and it should
give you a list of BOBs in your contacts. This works sometimes, sometimes not
at all, sometimes half the Bobs'. Yes this feature is selected in WM set up.

3. You cannot select a group of junk mail for addition to the blocked list.
You have to select the individual message, then select the junk mail
treatment one at a time! Hey with 15 Spam's an hour its the pits. Duh!

4. Norton Anti Spam, now in the "extra" pack from Norton does not work with
WM. I should say you cannot access the "Mark as Junk Mail" Norton button as
you could in OE. Norton Anti Spam seems to mark the offending messages as
Spam but they show in your inbox.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Comments interspersed.

Please, please prove me wrong here!

1. You cannot copy a contact to an email. I get the "hey what is ABCs email
address?" all the time and I cannot just go into contacts find the address
and copy/paste to an email as was possible in OE.

This works for me: With Contacts open, and the contact selected, go to the
far right pane ("Preview" pane) and drag your mouse across the email address.
It will become highlighted. Do Ctrl-C, then in the new message, Ctrl-V.

2. The way WM guesses address names is weird. You type in BOB and it should
give you a list of BOBs in your contacts. This works sometimes, sometimes not
at all, sometimes half the Bobs'. Yes this feature is selected in WM set up.

Yes, this feature is buggy in WM. It's been fixed in the WLM beta.
WLM=Windows Live Mail:
http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas

3. You cannot select a group of junk mail for addition to the blocked list.
You have to select the individual message, then select the junk mail
treatment one at a time! Hey with 15 Spam's an hour its the pits. Duh!

Agreed, this is a pain. But the Blocked Sender list is pretty much worthless anyway.

4. Norton Anti Spam, now in the "extra" pack from Norton does not work with
WM. I should say you cannot access the "Mark as Junk Mail" Norton button as
you could in OE. Norton Anti Spam seems to mark the offending messages as
Spam but they show in your inbox.

Windows Mail is not compatible with most Norton security products.