Mailing list groups in Windows 10 Mail

Anonymous

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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Anonymous

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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Anonymous

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

2017-08-19T17:28:48+00:00

Just moved to windows 10 and I discover the same problem. How comes I can access all my groups using Android apps (even the most basic built in email app!) but not the built in windows 10 mail app? I have a live.co.uk account (yes a Microsoft account!) and all my contacts (and groups) are stored on this address book.

If I use outlook.com, I can assess and edit and create the groups, albeit I find it extremely awkward (I hate the whole people lay out - useless for large numbers of contacts, and why are groups listed in the contacts just like contacts!).

So your groups have not gone, just not useable through the mail app!!!!

Still lamenting the loss of the windows live software....
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Anonymous

2017-08-23T03:10:35+00:00

I tried doing all their lame solutions. Ended up creating a group. The only plus side was I had a list of our clients so I could type in the first couple of letters and add it to the List.

Thank God I saved periodically because after the last 125 (I had created a Circle of Trust in my mind), when I hit "Enter" it told me "this was a bad time for Microsoft and I should come back later (my interpretation)." I held my breath and tried several times without success.

I don't understand what Microsoft is doing. Laying off so many employees; lack of support and improvement of software; no new hardware; (okay so I don't get the Pad or Phone); it's like all the money has been made and let Apple take over.
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Greg Carmack 24,780 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2017-10-17T15:19:14+00:00

This is becoming more of a pain point for consumers and needs to have the issue pushed to Windows 10 Mail developers more. Please open the Feedback Hub app in Start Menu and search the issue to vote it up and add your comments, or create your own Feedback on it if you want. Then either link the Feedback back here so others can vote it up or create their own feedback. Then if you'll link it back here others can find and vote it up. I'll also escalate it via the MVP Communications channel.

Meanwhile the workaround that seems to work the best is here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_10-files/mailing-list-groups-in-windows-10-mail/f0fda10d-7e74-4348-ae8b-b6df69d7cdf1
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