Email contact auto-complete

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 auto-complete 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 auto-complete 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, auto-complete the next time"?

Walter

"Wally" <w_cohen@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1173115856.936390.281710@30g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...
> 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 auto-complete 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 auto-complete 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, auto-complete the next time"?

That might work, if placing a message in the Outbox triggers
the auto-complete to remember as it seems to do when the
message is actually sent. Why not try it with one?

--
Gary VanderMolen

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" <Gary@nomail.invalid> gets two entries.

Gary VanderMolen
Gary@nomail.invalid

I created a contact but nothing was added to the list.

"Gary VanderMolen" <Gary@nomail.invalid> wrote in message
news:upziYX2XHHA.596@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> "Wally" <w_cohen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1173115856.936390.281710@30g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...
>> 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 auto-complete 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 auto-complete 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, auto-complete the next time"?
>
> That might work, if placing a message in the Outbox triggers
> the auto-complete to remember as it seems to do when the
> message is actually sent. Why not try it with one?
>
> --
> Gary VanderMolen
>

Interesting find! Thanks for sharing that.

Gary VanderMolen


<.> wrote in message news:e3HvAq2XHHA.1296@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> 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" <Gary@nomail.invalid> gets two entries.
>
> Gary VanderMolen
> Gary@nomail.invalid
>
> I created a contact but nothing was added to the list.
>
> "Gary VanderMolen" <Gary@nomail.invalid> wrote in message
> news:upziYX2XHHA.596@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> "Wally" <w_cohen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1173115856.936390.281710@30g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...
>>> 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 auto-complete 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 auto-complete 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, auto-complete the next time"?
>>
>> That might work, if placing a message in the Outbox triggers
>> the auto-complete to remember as it seems to do when the
>> message is actually sent. Why not try it with one?
>>
>> --
>> Gary VanderMolen