Mailing list groups in Windows 10 Mail

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I recently upgraded to Windows 10. I had been using Hotmail/outlook.com for my email. After the upgrade, I found my contacts but all of my mailing lists were gone. I checked the People app, but there was nothing there to help me create groups.

Is there a way to recover or create mailing lists now that I have upgraded?

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Please see the marked Answers below for a workaround and also Feedback posted by a MS engineer to the Feedback hub which you can click on to Upvote and add your comments of support. In order to get this needed feature added we need to create momentum and you can help in this way! But Microsoft will not even see this here because it is mostly staffed by volunteers who give our time to help others.

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There is NO option to create groups but there is a work around, using the Mail and People app together.

To create the group: In Mail, create New Mail, open the cc/bcc field and insert all the addresses for the particular group.

When completed (with the mouse pointer at the end), right click and select 'select all'. For some reason you can't right click and select copy but you can copy with ctrl+c. Now, open the People app, create new contact, give the group a name and paste the copied names into an email field, I use the 'Other' option and click the SAVE button.

To use the group: Mail app - New mail, click bcc field or whatever, open the People app, snap it left or right, find your group name, click on it, on the right hand side you will see all your group addresses, right click and copy, go back to mail, right click and paste.

I don't know the limitations of this (and there probably is). None of my groups have more than 10 names in them.

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Hi everyone,

I am a Microsoft support engineer and I want to gather more feedback from you in regards to the issue that users cannot send emails to multiple contacts in People App, so I can drive a feature request with Windows engineering group.

I have submitted a Feedback Hub post with the issue description here: https://aka.ms/AA21cea.

If you could upvote the issue and leave a detailed comment about your frustration with the absence of this feature, that would help me make a strong business case for the request.

Thank you very much and please comment below if you have any more questions!

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Anonymous

2016-12-30T20:32:30+00:00

Stop, just freak'n stop posting this STUPID workaround. and STOP saying this functionality doesn't exist, it DOES exist. They (Microsoft) have it available online. This is an easy fix and as I just noted, they know how to make it work as it works in the online people, mail and calendar. This is VERY LAZY on Microsoft's part, they see people posting this same issue over and over and over, and over and over, and they refuse the fix something they know how to fix/enhance to the Windows 10 app to do. AND, it worked in Windows 8 and the Windows 8.1 phone app.

I develop software for a living and the worst thing you can KEEP telling a user community is how to do something via a workaround, that is easily rectified and that you KNOW HOW TO FIX - SO MICROSOFT - FIX IT!!!!!!
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2016-12-29T19:28:27+00:00

There is NO option to create groups but there is a work around, using the Mail and People app together.

To create the group: In Mail, create New Mail, open the cc/bcc field and insert all the addresses for the particular group.

When completed (with the mouse pointer at the end), right click and select 'select all'. For some reason you can't right click and select copy but you can copy with ctrl+c. Now, open the People app, create new contact, give the group a name and paste the copied names into an email field, I use the 'Other' option and click the SAVE button.

To use the group: Mail app - New mail, click bcc field or whatever, open the People app, snap it left or right, find your group name, click on it, on the right hand side you will see all your group addresses, right click and copy, go back to mail, right click and paste.

I don't know the limitations of this (and there probably is). None of my groups have more than 10 names in them.

Thank you very much for your well detailed procedure. It is a bit complicated but it has been succesful with 47 names in it ....and it works. I cannot understand why Microsoft has not provided and import procedure....
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2016-12-15T02:20:19+00:00

There is NO option to create groups but there is a work around, using the Mail and People app together.

To create the group: In Mail, create New Mail, open the cc/bcc field and insert all the addresses for the particular group.

When completed (with the mouse pointer at the end), right click and select 'select all'. For some reason you can't right click and select copy but you can copy with ctrl+c. Now, open the People app, create new contact, give the group a name and paste the copied names into an email field, I use the 'Other' option and click the SAVE button.

To use the group: Mail app - New mail, click bcc field or whatever, open the People app, snap it left or right, find your group name, click on it, on the right hand side you will see all your group addresses, right click and copy, go back to mail, right click and paste.

I don't know the limitations of this (and there probably is). None of my groups have more than 10 names in them.

This is a workaround, but why do we need a workaround? This capability should be built in. If we can do it this way, surely Microsoft can make it easy for us. What is going on, Microsoft?
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