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Ryan Olson
This is being performed as the final step in a disater recovery for a small
company. Their contacts were lost (email addresses). Using a utility I was
able to extract all email addresses from an old PST (long story). An email
verification utility was used to cull the list of invalid addresses. The
final result was a list of email addresses in a text file. The list was
copied into a CSV which was then imported into outlook. The CSV contains 2
columns of duplicate data when viewed in excel. This was to proved some sort
of name header for outlook to sort the contacts by. The import goes smoothly
with all addresses viewable in outlook. However when the user right clicks
on the contact and tries to "send message to contact" the resulting "to:"
field is blank. Additionally, distribution lists can not be created fomr
these contacts. However, opening the contact and deleted the "display as"
field resolves the issue. There are almost a thousand contacts....any idea
of how to fix this short of fixing each one individually....
company. Their contacts were lost (email addresses). Using a utility I was
able to extract all email addresses from an old PST (long story). An email
verification utility was used to cull the list of invalid addresses. The
final result was a list of email addresses in a text file. The list was
copied into a CSV which was then imported into outlook. The CSV contains 2
columns of duplicate data when viewed in excel. This was to proved some sort
of name header for outlook to sort the contacts by. The import goes smoothly
with all addresses viewable in outlook. However when the user right clicks
on the contact and tries to "send message to contact" the resulting "to:"
field is blank. Additionally, distribution lists can not be created fomr
these contacts. However, opening the contact and deleted the "display as"
field resolves the issue. There are almost a thousand contacts....any idea
of how to fix this short of fixing each one individually....