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Patrick Whittle

Is there a way to send to 10+ recipients? Outlook Express never was able to
do this, and I hope that Vista "Windows Mail" now can.
 
If you are mailing the same message to the same group of people a lot of
times, create a contact group, enter a name for the contact group you
created, enter the addresses to the contact group.
Next time all you have to do is enter the group name in the TO column.
t-4-2
 
Patrick Whittle said:
Is there a way to send to 10+ recipients? Outlook Express never was able
to do this, and I hope that Vista "Windows Mail" now can.
Click to expand...

Sure it is, and OE was always able to do this. I do it regularly on OE and
WM and Windows Live Mail systems, to groups ranging from 15 to several
hundred.

Create Groups in the contact list, add recipients to the group, then when
you address, use the name of the group. It's that easy.

Generally, you add them to the BCC section which prevents the display of
all the addresses in the received mail; send to yourself as the primary
recipient.

Your mail provider *may* have restrictions on how many you can send at one
time, for spam-prevention purposes. Similarly, some of your recipients may
have spam filters configured to block mails sent this way. If that's the
case, contact them so that they can contact their IT group or mail provider
to white-list your address.

HTH
-pk
 
OE does indeed do this. Oh, you missed a few more non-relevent newsgroups
to post in.

: Is there a way to send to 10+ recipients? Outlook Express never was able
to
: do this, and I hope that Vista "Windows Mail" now can.
:
:
 
I opened Windows Mail (Vista) and tried what you said. There is nowhere to
add a group, within "Contacts" so I gueas I'll go to
technet.microsoft.com... or something.
 
If the toolbar in Contacts doesn't have all the options, then the
folder type for Contacts is incorrect. Try this:
Open Windows Contacts. Right-click somewhere in that
empty white space to the far right. Select Customize This Folder,
click the little triangle, and from the dropdown list select Contacts,
then click OK.
 
Patrick,
There is an icon next to Send/receive. That is the Contact button. Click
that. Do you see New Contact Group ? If yes. that's where you create contact
group.
t-4-2
 
Everything looks fine, but there is no "little triangle" on mine. Is this
an "Outlook Express" thing? (where I need Outlook?? ... I'm running Vista;
I don't know if Windows has two versions, as Outlook did)
 
Let me see if I can help.
Open Windows Mail > look up, click VIEW > click LAYOUT > click CUSTOMIZE
TOOLBAR >
you should now see a window within which there are 2 boxes. The one on the
left is " Available toolbar buttons ", the one on the right is " Current
toolbar buttons ". At the middle of those 2 are ADD and REMOVE.
Find where is the CONTACT. Is it inside the left box ? If yes, click that,
then click ADD. It is now inside the right box.
Click CLOSE.
Go back to the toolbar menu, click the icon next to Send/receive. Do you now
see New Contact Group ? If yes, click that. You are now ready to create a
new contact group. Hope this will help.
t-4-2
 
It's a Vista thing. Vista will try to "help" and use a folder template
based on what type of files it sees in the folder.
Every folder can be configured to present different file attributes. There
are a few preset configurations, known as "templates".
It shouldn't do this for the Contacts folder, but it sometimes does.

Here's my boilerplate reply.....

When you have the Contacts folder open, you should have a button on the
toolbar for "New Contact", "New Contact Group", Import" and "Export". If
you don't see these buttons, the folder template got changed, as it
sometimes does...

Right-click on a blank area of the right pane, and select "Customize this
folder".
In the pull-down box, select "Contacts"
OK
 
I see "New Contact" but not "New Contact Group"

t-4-2 said:
Patrick,
There is an icon next to Send/receive. That is the Contact button. Click
that. Do you see New Contact Group ? If yes. that's where you create
contact group.
t-4-2
Click to expand...
 
OK. On that same window where you see only New Contact, right click on the
blank area of the same toolbar, click customize this folder, drop down
box, click Contacts.
Hope this will help.
t-4-2
 
Help!!
I just had to switch from Outlook Express to Windows Mail because of issues
with Vista.
I can't figure out how to make GROUPS in Windows Mail?!
It was easy in OE: Window Popped Up asking if you wanted a Group and then
you selected from you list of address to populate the group.
Can't find this in Windows Mail!? UGH!!
Help!!
 
You switched to Windows Mail because you have issues with Vista ? Hope you
know Windows Mail is part of Vista.
Anyway,
Tool Bar, click Contacts ( or Menu Bar, Tools, click Windows Contacts ) >
click New Contact Group, and go make your groups.
If New Contact Group is not visible, Right click anywhere inside the
Contacts window, click Customize This Folder > click Customize tab >under "
Use this folder as template ", click the downward pointing arrowhead until
you see Contacts, click that > OK
t-4-2
 
(boilerplate reply).....

When you have the Contacts folder open, you should have a button on the
toolbar for "New Contact", "New Contact Group", Import" and "Export". If
you don't see these buttons, the folder template got changed, as it
sometimes does...

Right-click on a blank area of the right pane, and select "Customize this
folder".
In the pull-down box, select "Contacts"
OK
 
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