changing EmailAddress and EmailType / EX to SMTP

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Jamie Holloway - 07 Nov 2006 01:52 GMT

I sometimes copy contacts from my Exchange address book, to a contacts folder
which resides in my non-Exchange associated POP3-Outlook profile. When I do
this, I cannot use the contact to send SMTP messages because the
EmaillAddress and EmailType reference the Exchange address which is not a
valid SMTP address... (The EmailAddress is set to an Active Directory key,
and the EmailType==EX). I wrote a kludgy macro to parse the EmailDisplayName
and to set the EmailAddress, and to set the EmailType=SMTP. Then I lost my
macro… :)

Any recommendations on a better method for copying contact information from
an Exchange address book to a POP3/SMTP Outlook contacts folder in such a way
that does not require me to translate EmailAddress and EmailType?

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Tommy Brady - 07 Nov 2006 02:57 GMT

Hi Jamie, I wish I could help you. This is pretty bold of me but I have a
problem that sounds close to your question. I had a number of Outlook 2000
contacts that I forwarded individually to another PC. They were received in
Verizon/Yahoo web mail directed to a mailbox for that sender address. I
realized they couldn't be received in Outlook and had Verizon/Yahoo help me
tonight. I set up an incoming and outgoing account from Yahoo and moved all
the messages to the inbox and hit send/receive in outlook and they all
transferred to Outlook. (Now appearing to be gone from Verizon/Yahoo web
mail). BUT, when I open the e-mails the contacts are not appearing as
attacments with all the detail. It looks like a forwarded message with no
contact info on them. Do you know if that info gone forever?

> I sometimes copy contacts from my Exchange address book, to a contacts folder
> which resides in my non-Exchange associated POP3-Outlook profile. When I do
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> an Exchange address book to a POP3/SMTP Outlook contacts folder in such a way
> that does not require me to translate EmailAddress and EmailType?

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 09 Nov 2006 01:03 GMT

See http://www.slipstick.com/exs/portagal.htm

Also note that Outlook 2007 eliminates this issue by showing only SMTP addresses for all GAL entries.

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>I sometimes copy contacts from my Exchange address book, to a contacts folder
> which resides in my non-Exchange associated POP3-Outlook profile. When I do
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> an Exchange address book to a POP3/SMTP Outlook contacts folder in such a way
> that does not require me to translate EmailAddress and EmailType?

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Tommy Brady - 09 Nov 2006 02:31 GMT

Good to know. Thanks, Sue.

> See http://www.slipstick.com/exs/portagal.htm
>
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> > an Exchange address book to a POP3/SMTP Outlook contacts folder in such a way
> > that does not require me to translate EmailAddress and EmailType?

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