Transferring email address

[gehenna]

Hi Folks
I have had to replace my desktop on which I used Windows Mail.
On the new machine I have gone for Outlook, but cannot get the email addresses to automatically pop up when typing the first few letters of a contact. I have to select the address book and then select the name.
Does anyone have any ideas please ?
Thanks

[Harry Wayfarers]

Originally Posted by gehenna

Hi Folks
I have had to replace my desktop on which I used Windows Mail.
On the new machine I have gone for Outlook, but cannot get the email addresses to automatically pop up when typing the first few letters of a contact. I have to select the address book and then select the name.
Does anyone have any ideas please ?
Thanks

If it helps I use (free) Thunderbird and I have no complaints and no such issues

[Asturias56]

Danger is that the mail system sees all those bcc addresses, categorizes you as a spammer and blocks your email - it happened to me once.

[gehenna]

Thank you

Thanks very much for your replies.
I have heard as mentioned that Thunderbird is a good alternative to Outlook. I'll give it a few more days, then if no luck may well move over.
Any other suggestions in the meantime would be appreciated.

gehenna

[Jhieminga]

PDR1 covered it, you need to use the addresses so that the autocomplete list is populated. Thunderbird is a great e-mail client that includes a setting allowing autocomplete based on both your address book and from 'collected' addresses.

[gehenna]

Jhieminga

Thank you for that information.

I think I am slowly getting there with Outlook, but only time will tell.