I am submitting these questions on behalf of a friend of mine. She uses
Windows
Mail, running under Vista.
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So do I. However, make sure she's not confusing Windows Mail with a
similarly
named program, Windows Live Mail.
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1. She tells me that Windows Mail (or Vista) blocks hyperlinks inside
email messages
in her Windows Mail Inbox. If the URL is not visible then she has no way
to browse
to the link that is included in the message. Is this normal operation, or
is there a setting
that she needs to change to permit access to hyperlinks inside email
messages?
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I don't have that problem, and went through the available settings without
seeing
any that should affect it.
Vista can block access using the Hosts file, but that won't keep her from
being able
to click on the URL; it just makes the URL unreachable after she clicks it.
She might want to try holding down the Ctrl key with one finger while
pressing the
F3 key with another finger; that often makes the URL visible but not
clickable.
She can then copy and paste it into the top line of the browser window, then
click the button that tells the browser to go to whatever URL is on that
line.
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2. The second problem she reports is that there is a restriction on the
number of email
addresses she can add to email distribution lists she creates. She has a
group of
approximately 35 names she would like to send messages to but if she tries
to add
more than ten or twelve names to a distribution list then other names on
already on the
list will be deleted. Is there such a restriction? If so, is there any
way to work around it
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I haven't heard of such a limit and didn't think Windows Mail had any
restriction on
the number of addresses allowed in any email you are sending. However,
email
providers, such as the one whose email servers she tries to send the email
to for
distribution to the various addresses, often do have limits on how many
addresses
you can send a single message to, without sending the message over and over,
but with different lists of addresses.
One workaround is to set up more that one distribution list, then send the
same
message to each of these distribution lists. To do this, click on Tools in
the main
Windows Mail window, then Windows Contacts. The toolbar of this new window
should include New Contact Group. If it's missing, see here:
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http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/186477-new-contact-new-contact-group-button-missing.html>
Click on New Contact Group, then name the group something different from
any contact or contact group you have already (for example, use the name of
a similar contact group, except add a number such as 2 to the end of the
name).
She can then start adding members to the group. After adding all the
desired
members, she should click on OK.
After she finishes creating the group, she can start a new message, but not
type
any part of the group name. Instead, click on Tools in the new message
window,
then Select Recipients, then scroll down until the group name in visible,
then
click on it, then whichever header line she wants to put the addresses on
(To:, Cc:, or Bcc
. After all the addresses or contact groups desired are
on
the lists, click OK. Then finish the message, possibly using copy and paste
from a text file so she doesn't have to type the body of the message more
than once. After finishing the message, click Send, then create more copies
of
the message to send to any other distribution lists the same way. Clicking
on
To: in the new message window is an even faster way to open the Select
Recipients window.
The Bcc: line is normally hidden. If she wants to see it, or stop seeing
it,
she should click on View in the new message window, then All Headers.
Addresses on this line will not be shown to those who get the messages, even
their own addresses. However, don't put all the addresses on this line;
there
should be at least one address (perhaps the sender's own) on the To: line.
Make sure she does not confuse contact groups with the separate list used
for completing recently used email addresses after typing in just the first
part of the address, but without calling up the Select Recipients window.
That list will hold only 29 entries, the last 29 addresses she sent email
to, and
is harder to edit.
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Thanks for your assistance.
S. Graham
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You're welcome.
Robert Miles
