Windows Mail - select recipients from Contacts only

[Victor]

Hi,

I'm using now Windows Mail for my personal mail.

When I Create a New Message and then click on the To: button to select the
recipients for the new message then a list of the addresses of all my
previous messages (sent and received) comes up for selection.
That -although useful- is not what I really want; I'd like to see the list
of addresses from my Contacts only.

I've been browsing throughout the commands, configurations and options to
set Contacts as my default list of recipients but I haven't been able to find
anything to do that.

Any ideas?

BRgds

 

[Dave]

When you click on the To:, you should see all of the contacts in your
Contacts folder.
Perhaps you have unknowingly been adding contacts to the folder, via the
"automatically put people I reply to in my Contacts list" setting? It's
under Tools - Options - Send

When you open the Contacts folder, do you see the same contacts?

 

[Victor]

Hi Dave, thanks.

Yes, I have that option set in my configuration.

I found that there was a subfolder called 'Other' under 'Contacts'
(E:\Users\Victor\Contacts\other) which had all those extra addresses.

However, what really threw me off was that I thought there was a different
list besides 'Contacts' and 'Other' which was accessed by Windows Mail. I
arrived to the wrong conclusion because when I went to the Contacts and Other
folder via Windows Explorer and then renamed the contact then the new
modified name of the contact wasn't shown when I loaded it in Windows Mail.

What really has to be done to edit (rename) a Contact is to use Windows Mail
itself, click on the Contacts button and then click on Edit. If you rename
the contact using Windows Explorer the change won't stick; most likely
Windows Mail has access to a 'name' field which is not accessible through
Windows Explorer.

BRgds