How do you forward a message to a category group?

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I have contacts with categories and I can send new messages to particular
goups just fine. The big question is: is there a simple way to *forward* a
message to a group without having to cut/paste the "To:" list from a dummy
new message, or copying the original message to a new one?

Thanks,

Alan
 
And this makes category views better than a classic DL how? (It's a
rhetorical question; I know the official party line on it.)

Does/will O12 let you use a category view by name as a recipient, or is it
going to be the same farkled cluster-poopie we've got now?

Russ Valentine said:
Nope. AFAIK cut and paste is the best there is.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
J. Alan Rueckgauer said:
I have contacts with categories and I can send new messages to particular
goups just fine. The big question is: is there a simple way to *forward*
a message to a group without having to cut/paste the "To:" list from a
dummy new message, or copying the original message to a new one?

Thanks,

Alan
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Doesn't drag and drop work?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
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After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:

| Nope. AFAIK cut and paste is the best there is.
|| I have contacts with categories and I can send new messages to
|| particular goups just fine. The big question is: is there a simple
|| way to *forward* a message to a group without having to cut/paste
|| the "To:" list from a dummy new message, or copying the original
|| message to a new one?
||
|| Thanks,
||
|| Alan
 
I just did. I displayed the contacts folder in a new window, dragged the DL
from the contact window to the forwarded message TO: field and it sent just
fine. I forwarded it to my internal GAL but I think it should work for
other forwards to DLs as well.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
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After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:

| Try it and see.
|| Doesn't drag and drop work?
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:
||
||| Nope. AFAIK cut and paste is the best there is.
|||| I have contacts with categories and I can send new messages to
|||| particular goups just fine. The big question is: is there a
|||| simple way to *forward* a message to a group without having to
|||| cut/paste the "To:" list from a dummy new message, or copying the
|||| original message to a new one?
||||
|||| Thanks,
||||
|||| Alan
 
Oh, and in case I misunderstood, I tried forwarding with the Categories view
displayed, again dragged and dropped the category from the contacts to the
message TO: header already selected for forwarding.

Am I missing something here?


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:

| Try it and see.
|| Doesn't drag and drop work?
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:
||
||| Nope. AFAIK cut and paste is the best there is.
|||| I have contacts with categories and I can send new messages to
|||| particular goups just fine. The big question is: is there a
|||| simple way to *forward* a message to a group without having to
|||| cut/paste the "To:" list from a dummy new message, or copying the
|||| original message to a new one?
||||
|||| Thanks,
||||
|||| Alan
 
You were. DL's were not in play.
Now I can't tell. I can't reproduce what you did. When I try to drag a
category to the BCC field of a messaging I am forwarding, no valid email
addresses are transferred and Outlook crashes.
 
Hmmm - let's discuss this offlist. I may be doing something that you aren't
and could be configured differently (using Exchange 2003 here.)

Email me privately. We will get this sorted.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:

| You were. DL's were not in play.
| Now I can't tell. I can't reproduce what you did. When I try to drag a
| category to the BCC field of a messaging I am forwarding, no valid
| email addresses are transferred and Outlook crashes.
|| Oh, and in case I misunderstood, I tried forwarding with the
|| Categories view
|| displayed, again dragged and dropped the category from the contacts
|| to the message TO: header already selected for forwarding.
||
|| Am I missing something here?
||
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:
||
||| Try it and see.
|||| Doesn't drag and drop work?
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:
||||
||||| Nope. AFAIK cut and paste is the best there is.
|||||| I have contacts with categories and I can send new messages to
|||||| particular goups just fine. The big question is: is there a
|||||| simple way to *forward* a message to a group without having to
|||||| cut/paste the "To:" list from a dummy new message, or copying the
|||||| original message to a new one?
||||||
|||||| Thanks,
||||||
|||||| Alan
 
Will do. This would be a good solution if I could get it to work. Now you
see why I didn't provide D/D as a solution ;)
 
Russ and I tested this offline and... drum roll please, RUSS IS CORRECT. I
used a rarely seen and probably never used configuration that is probably
never seen in real life.

But I am an MVP so real life rarely impacts me - I live in newsgroups and
discussion forums. I have to get out more.

Thanks Russ for the non-repro.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:

| Will do. This would be a good solution if I could get it to work. Now
| you see why I didn't provide D/D as a solution ;)
|| Hmmm - let's discuss this offlist. I may be doing something that you
|| aren't
|| and could be configured differently (using Exchange 2003 here.)
||
|| Email me privately. We will get this sorted.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:
||
||| You were. DL's were not in play.
||| Now I can't tell. I can't reproduce what you did. When I try to
||| drag a category to the BCC field of a messaging I am forwarding, no
||| valid email addresses are transferred and Outlook crashes.
|||| Oh, and in case I misunderstood, I tried forwarding with the
|||| Categories view
|||| displayed, again dragged and dropped the category from the contacts
|||| to the message TO: header already selected for forwarding.
||||
|||| Am I missing something here?
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:
||||
||||| Try it and see.
|||||| Doesn't drag and drop work?
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||||
|||||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||||| without reading.
||||||
|||||| After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
|||||| asked:
||||||
||||||| Nope. AFAIK cut and paste is the best there is.
|||||||| I have contacts with categories and I can send new messages to
|||||||| particular goups just fine. The big question is: is there a
|||||||| simple way to *forward* a message to a group without having to
|||||||| cut/paste the "To:" list from a dummy new message, or copying
|||||||| the original message to a new one?
||||||||
|||||||| Thanks,
||||||||
|||||||| Alan
 
Just what is this rarely seen config? The environments I'm looking to solve
this for are all SBS2003, E2003, and OL2003. I haven't paid much attention
to DLs on the Outlook side for years now since I mainly develop LOB and
server-side apps. When they involve sending mail, they're mostly pulling
the addies from SQL or AD repositories, not Exchange. I got dragged into
this OL thing because several clients are wanting to consolidate Exchange,
SharePoint, and their SQL database contacts.

BTW, are there any good how-tos for actually implementing contact
consolidation? I come across tons and tons of marketing fluff that waxes
poetic and sensual about the advantages of the product line for doing this,
but no actual nuts-and-bolts examples that address multiple
point-of-service/single repository scenarios. The few marginally useful
items up on MS all have odd-man-out scenarios where Outlook or SharePoint
gets stuck in read-only land.

Tanx,

Alan


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
Russ and I tested this offline and... drum roll please, RUSS IS CORRECT.
I
used a rarely seen and probably never used configuration that is probably
never seen in real life.

But I am an MVP so real life rarely impacts me - I live in newsgroups and
discussion forums. I have to get out more.

Thanks Russ for the non-repro.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:

| Will do. This would be a good solution if I could get it to work. Now
| you see why I didn't provide D/D as a solution ;)
|| Hmmm - let's discuss this offlist. I may be doing something that you
|| aren't
|| and could be configured differently (using Exchange 2003 here.)
||
|| Email me privately. We will get this sorted.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:
||
||| You were. DL's were not in play.
||| Now I can't tell. I can't reproduce what you did. When I try to
||| drag a category to the BCC field of a messaging I am forwarding, no
||| valid email addresses are transferred and Outlook crashes.
|||| Oh, and in case I misunderstood, I tried forwarding with the
|||| Categories view
|||| displayed, again dragged and dropped the category from the contacts
|||| to the message TO: header already selected for forwarding.
||||
|||| Am I missing something here?
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked:
||||
||||| Try it and see.
|||||| Doesn't drag and drop work?
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||||
|||||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||||| without reading.
||||||
|||||| After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
|||||| asked:
||||||
||||||| Nope. AFAIK cut and paste is the best there is.
|||||||| I have contacts with categories and I can send new messages to
|||||||| particular goups just fine. The big question is: is there a
|||||||| simple way to *forward* a message to a group without having to
|||||||| cut/paste the "To:" list from a dummy new message, or copying
|||||||| the original message to a new one?
||||||||
|||||||| Thanks,
||||||||
|||||||| Alan
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