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Guest

Hi all...

Three questions:

1) How can I add the sender of a message to my Contacts folder?
Need more coffee perhaps, but I can't find this anywhere in Help.

2) In lieu of an automatic method, how can I view the entire message,
full header and all, in order to get to the real email address instead of
the English "alias" for the address?

3) What is the best way to send a message to each person in a given
Contacts folder without using a Distribution list? My understanding is
that when you use the Dist List feature, everyone getting the msg
sees the addresses of everyone else in the list.

Thanks!
--Chris
 
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Brian Tillman

MVSmith said:
1) How can I add the sender of a message to my Contacts folder?
Need more coffee perhaps, but I can't find this anywhere in Help.
Click to expand...

Open the message. Now right-click the sender's address and choose "Add to
Contacts".
2) In lieu of an automatic method, how can I view the entire message,
full header and all, in order to get to the real email address
instead of the English "alias" for the address?
Click to expand...

IN your Inbox, right-click the subject of the message, choose Options, and
view the headers. Alternatively, open the message and click View>Options.
3) What is the best way to send a message to each person in a given
Contacts folder without using a Distribution list? My
understanding is that when you use the Dist List feature, everyone
getting the msg sees the addresses of everyone else in the list.
Click to expand...

Your understanding is flawed. If you create a DL and then put that DL in
the Bcc field instead of the To or Cc filed, then no one who receives the
message will see who else received it. The same would be true, even if you
automatically include everyone in a Contacts folder. DLs have nothing to do
with it. The Bcc field is the secret in any case.

In the Inbox, click New to create a new mail message. Click To, select your
address book, if it's not already selected, click the first person, hold the
shift key, click the last person. This will highlight everyone in that
address book. Click the Bcc button to add them there.

Alternatively, you can use MailMerge from Word.
 
G

Guest

Thanks Brian. Will try the BCC trick. My flawed understanding came from this
statement in Outlook Help, under About Distribution Lists:

"A message sent to this distribution list goes to all recipients listed in the
distribution list.
Recipients see their own names and the names of all other recipients on the To line of the
message instead of seeing the name of the distribution list. "

I guess this applies only to DLs applied to the To field.

Regarding the Contacts right-click, I had remembered doing that,
but tried in on a msg, and got no option for saving to Contacts in
the shortcut menu. This was from a Hotmail account, so perhaps
only the visible name was available.

Incidentally, are there any tricks for transferring a Hotmail address book
from the website to Outlook's Contacts folder?

Thanks again...
--Chris
 
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