Email contact auto-complete
Posted by admin on Sep 25th, 2006
Ok, so it's well established that if you exported your OE address book and imported them as contacts in Vista you cannot make us of contact name autocomplete feature while addressing.Someone posted that you need to either send an email to these imported contacts and/or receive an email back from them befoe Vista email will "remember" them next time for autocomplete to work.I was thinking if I disconnected my internet and sent an email to each of my contacts they'd all go to my outbox waiting for a connection to send. If I then deleted by outbox would this work as far as Microsoft's "send once, autocomplete the next time"?Walter
Sep 30th, 2006 at 03:21 am
"Wally" That might work, if placing a message in the Outbox triggers the autocomplete to remember as it seems to do when the message is actually sent. Why not try it with one? Gary VanderMolen
Oct 1st, 2006 at 06:11 pm
Definitely this list here seems to be one (of one or more I know not) of the generators.HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Recently Used Addresses (double click the values to read them)My email address, which I had not used before, but is listed in my profile contact, bought up nothing when I started typing, After sending myself an email it is now in auto complete (an extra entry was added to that registry key as well).Looking through my list it appears only sent mails are included, not received mails. My bank who I receive mail from frequently but have never sent any to are not in the list. This is perhaps so all that junk mail doesn't get into autocomplete.Also each variant is added to the list, i.e. both name and email are separate entries, so"Gary VanderMolen" gets two entries.Gary VanderMolen Gary@nomail.invalidI created a contact but nothing was added to the list."Gary VanderMolen"
Oct 6th, 2006 at 04:54 am
Interesting find! Thanks for sharing that.Gary VanderMolen <.>