Mailing list groups in Windows 10 Mail

Anonymous
2015-08-05T01:18:34+00:00

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
2016-07-06T22:10:21+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.

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Anonymous
2018-08-08T22:48:37+00:00

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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  1. Greg Carmack 24,780 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-12-07T15:02:21+00:00

    Hi Wayne. 

    What mail sync app did you switch from that had this feature?

    Normally it's only available in the actual online or Office Mail Account.

    Windows 10 Mail is only a sync service, and some features cannot sync properly so are left to the actual online or Office account to do - like Spam control and Mailing list groups. 

    This should not be a problem, just sign into the source Mail account. 

    I do hope you'll file feedback as the engineer is requesting.  If you want to post a link to it here, others can vote it up and add their comments.  I'll also vote it up with my MVP badge.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-12-07T14:13:39+00:00

    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!

    I Email to Groups very frequently and if I knew this was no longer a capability of Windows 10 MS Mail, I would never have switched.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-12-05T13:22:57+00:00

    Dear Sophia and Microsoft

    I have a concern about my Surface laptop contact list not being able to create a group mailing. I dont want to use the mail merge. 

    Why can we not just create/name folders in the contacts and then choose the contacts to put in there.

    I have a Windows 10 laptop also and that works fine for this application.

    https://aka.ms/AA21cea Not sure if you needed this. But I went in there and got lost. Mucrosoft does not make things easy for the tech challenged!

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