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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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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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

2016-03-11T15:08:02+00:00

disable,

Thanks for the work around. I will give it a try.

In the meantime, I am still able to use Hotmail/Outlook and the feature is still there.
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Anonymous

2016-06-30T21:17:18+00:00

Really hope this issue gets resolved some day.

For the time being, here is my not so perfect workaround:

I've created Draft emails with all the recipients for a particular group in the "To:" field and the name of the group in the "Subject" and "Body" of email. I just leave these in the draft folder.

This way, whether creating a new email or forwarding, it's just a matter of selecting appropriate draft email and copying and pasting recipients. Make sense?

Not perfect, but not as cumbersome as some of the other workarounds I've seen.
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Anonymous

2016-06-30T22:11:37+00:00

This is an okay workaround.

I still prefer not to use Mail. I use Internet Explorer and open Outlook/Hotmail. All the functionality is still there.
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