forwarding emails via BCC

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Hi, when I forward on an email to one or more people and
put them in BCC it takes forever for each contact to be entered into
the BCC column, which I have to say never happened before, can someone
please help?
 
horrob said:
Hi, when I forward on an email to one or more people and
put them in BCC it takes forever for each contact to be entered into
the BCC column, which I have to say never happened before,
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Do you mean that your typing slows down?
 
Hi Brian, Not particularly, it is just that when I add two or three or so
names in
BCC it just hangs for several seconds between each one before entering, and
does the same thing when I press send?
A friend of mine said I may have a bug, so I should do a complete check of C
drive?
I am about to try that??
 
horrob said:
Hi Brian, Not particularly, it is just that when I add two or three
or so names in
BCC it just hangs for several seconds between each one before
entering, and does the same thing when I press send?
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Do you mean there's a delay before Outlook resolves the address (i.e.,
underlines it)? Is this with a Contacts folder in a local PST?
 
Yes Brian, thats exactly what its doing, if I receive an email from a person
that I think is worth sharing I forward it on by going into my contacts and
choosing names from there and sending it off.
I have been doing that for ages, it is only the last couple of weeks I have
had this problem? "Oh" as I said, a friend thought I should scan my PC, which
I did and it did not resolve the problem.
I am not sure what a PST is?
 
horrob said:
Yes Brian, thats exactly what its doing, if I receive an email from a
person that I think is worth sharing I forward it on by going into my
contacts and choosing names from there and sending it off.
I have been doing that for ages, it is only the last couple of weeks
I have had this problem? "Oh" as I said, a friend thought I should
scan my PC, which I did and it did not resolve the problem.
I am not sure what a PST is?
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PST = "Personal Folders file", used when your only accounts are POP accounts
(and at other times, as well). I should have asked if you were using an
Exchange mailbox to store your data.
 
Hi again, I simply have a list of contact friends and family, which when I am
going to forward an email on I just select "forward" and choose names from
that list to send to, as for an exchange mailbox? I simply use my ISP which
is Optusnet here in Australia and Microsoft Outlook.
Sorry if I am a bit vague....not as young as I used to be :-)
 
horrob said:
Hi again, I simply have a list of contact friends and family, which
when I am going to forward an email on I just select "forward" and
choose names from that list to send to, as for an exchange mailbox? I
simply use my ISP which is Optusnet here in Australia and Microsoft
Outlook.
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OK, you're using a PST and a POP/SMTP account.

If this were happening to me, I think I'd try a new mail profile. I'm not
sure it would help, but a new profile addresses many problems not
addressable any other way. See this:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm . Connect your existing PST
top this new profile; don't start a new PST.
Sorry if I am a bit vague....not as young as I used to be :-)
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Many of us are in that same boat!
 
Thank you Brian, it all seems pretty involved, but if all else fails I will
give a try.
I thought if Outlook was corrupted could I not simply put in my Win. XP disc
and re-run it?
 
horrob said:
Thank you Brian, it all seems pretty involved, but if all else fails
I will give a try.
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GIive it a try, even if nothing else has failed.
I thought if Outlook was corrupted could I not simply put in my Win.
XP disc and re-run it?
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Sorry, that's not a correct assumption.
 
Hi again Brian, I had a look at Outlook express and it appears at this point
in time I dont have the same problems as in Outlook.
Do you think that will solve my problem?, even though I wont have the same
resources as before I can live with that, I just dont want to start using it
and then develop the same problem?
 
horrob said:
Hi again Brian, I had a look at Outlook express and it appears at
this point in time I dont have the same problems as in Outlook.
Do you think that will solve my problem?, even though I wont have the
same resources as before I can live with that, I just dont want to
start using it and then develop the same problem?
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Outlook Express is a simpler program and often will work when Outlook
doesn't, but that's no guarantee it will always work when Outlook doesn't.
Any POP/SMTP client is subject to the same protocol requirements as any
other.

That said, if you don't need features ike calendaring and task management,
use whatever tool suits you.
 
Thank you Brian, I really do appreciate all the help you have provided me,
and I can live without calendars etc. even though they can be very helpful
especially as you get older, if I become frustrated because I have forgotten
something I will go back to outlook and do what you suggested.
Once again thank you.
horrob
 
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