email address not usable unless a contact is made

[Beemer]

I have no problems with using my contacts in my sending of emails but
was today surprised when I could not manually add a string of email
addresses pasted in bcc from a notpad file. All had a semicolon after
them .

A window popped up askingf if I wanted to make contacts of each. I could
not send the email unless I made each name a contact.

Is this normal?

Beemer

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes.

 

[Beemer]

Yes.

Russ,

Be assured that I was not wanting to use this facility to send spam! I
am a member of a club which is in three cities. In sending
announcements about meetings I do not want to release email addresses to
everyone but they do know that the email is from me.

One group has constantly changing student members and I do not want to
add these individuals to my contacts as I already have 3300!!

Is there any way I can do a cut and paste into either bcc or cc?

Students for some reason seem to have partially random alphanumeric
email addresses probably pre-assigned to them and I find it a real pain
to enter each one manually

Beemer

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Have you looked into creating Distribution Lists? You'd still have to enter
each name and address individually into the DL, but you'd have it available
to use from then on.

 

[Beemer]

Have you looked into creating Distribution Lists? You'd still have to enter
each name and address individually into the DL, but you'd have it available
to use from then on.

I have them in a sub folder of the contact folder but will try using a
DL.

Thanks

Beemer

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Well gee, if you already have them in a Contacts subfolder, why don't you
just use Select All > New Actions > New Message to Contact?

 

[Beemer]

Well gee, if you already have them in a Contacts subfolder, why don't you
just use Select All > New Actions > New Message to Contact?

I have the ones already entered in the sub folder. Its the dozens of
student email addresses which I wanted to cut n paste into a new email
header without having to actually make a new Outlook contact for each
(as they are temporary students).

So it appears that the only thing I can do is to cut and paste each one
individually into a new mail

Beemer

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

You've lost me. How could they be in a Contacts subfolder if you haven't
created a Contact Record for them? Contacts Folders contain Contact Records.
Period.

 

[Beemer]

You've lost me. How could they be in a Contacts subfolder if you haven't
created a Contact Record for them? Contacts Folders contain Contact Records.
Period.

I recall that my original post mentioned that I used a Contacts
subfolder for all of the club members EXCEPT for the ones who are
students.

Beemer

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Your original post fell off my server days ago.