On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 22:12, Joshua James wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 11:04, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 12:58, grok wrote:
> > > 
> > > In the 'Contacts' module, it seems to me that none of the 'Categories'
> > > off the main Contact list are _globally_ available to 'expand' a typed
> > > alias in an outgoing message header field. This seems awfully limiting,
> > > and presently I have to manually click on the To; Cc: Bcc: buttons and
> > > drop menus just in order to get to these email addresses -- and select
> > > them one-by-one at that. Creating lists is just as 'click-consuming'.
> > 
> > What exactly do you mean?  I dont follow.  You mean when you compose a
> > message?  What do categories have to do with it?  Do you mean other
> > contact folders?
> 
> In Outlook, if setup correctly, will pull your typed names from all
> address book folders. If I type Bob and Fred, and Bob is my Contacts
> folder and Fred is in in my personal Contacts sub-folder it will pull
> them both. In Evolution it would only pull Bob, Fred would not be found.

This can be done in 1.1.x i believe.

> Also in Outlook if you choose Wilma and click CC, and then double-click
> Fran it will CC Fran as well. Evolution will put Fran in the To: field.

ok

> Outlook has its problems and sometimes too many features but overall is
> a nice to use program. 2002 seems VERY slow though, especially saving
> PSTs over the network. Microsoft's fix to "Outlook slows computer while
> downloading mail" is pretty much to "Wait for messages to be
> downloaded".

sounds reasonable to me :)  people are so impatient.




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