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Casey Ploehn - 31 Jan 2004 16:02 GMT

Hi,

I have a user trying to setup Outlook 2002 to
automatically add email addresses to his Contacts. He
wants any email addresses that appear in the From field of
received messages and are not currently in his Contacts to
be automatically added to his Contacts. He stated that
this was possible with a previous version of Outlook (not
sure which and he could have meant Outlook Express), but
he is unable to switch on this ability in Outlook 2002.
Thanks for your help.

Casey

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 31 Jan 2004 16:31 GMT

What a spectacularly bad idea. He is serious? He really wants all senders
added to his address book automatically?
Outlook had never done this and thankfully never would. Outlook has always
provided the option to R click an email address in the From field and Add to
Contacts from the Context menu.

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Sue Mosher [MVP] - 31 Jan 2004 17:44 GMT

Actually I think it did in bad ugly IMO mode, but we're trying to forget
that, aren't we? Spectacularly bad idea; adding recipients of outgoing
messages makes some sense, though. In any case, see
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/addauto.htm for various ways to save
senders or recipients as new contacts automatically, depending on the
version and configuration of Outlook.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 31 Jan 2004 18:24 GMT

I just rechecked. IMO did a lot of dumb things, but not even it added
senders automatically--only recipients to whom you replied.

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Casey - 31 Jan 2004 20:05 GMT

ok. thanks guys. this wouldnt fall into my 'good idea'
category, either. but that doesnt mean that i shouldnt at
least aid the poor, misguided soul. or maybe it does...

casey

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