Re: Changing Addresses of a Contact in a Distirbution List

From: Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] (russval_at_mvps.org)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:51:22 -0500

Posted many times. "Update Now" does not work for DL's. DL's do not work as
designed, particularly if a Contact has been imported or created in an
earlier version. 

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Nate Wells" <Nate Wells@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:318FFF0E-D179-4634-8F38-D415C18F79E1@microsoft.com...
> I'm using Outlook 2002 (10.2627.2625) on Windows XP.  My contacts were
> imported from Netscape Communicator 4.79, which may have something to do 
> with
> this.
>
> I've got a distribution list in my contacts folder.  One of the members of
> the list has a new address.  I go to that contact and make the change 
> there.
> It isn't reflected in the distribution list, as I assumed it would be.  As 
> it
> turns out, I have been inadvertently sending email to an outdated email
> address for 4 months now.
>
> After being informed of the mistake, I look into it.  I try again and 
> again
> to get the distribution list updated.  I tried hitting the 'Update Now'
> button.  I deleted the contact from the list, and then added it again. 
> Same
> thing.  I remove the contact from the list, save and close the list, open 
> the
> list back up, add the contact. same thing.  I delete the contact from the
> list, then delete it from my contacts folder, create a new contact, add 
> that
> contact to the list, SAME THING.
>
> Eventually, I end up deleting the contact from everything again, closing
> outlook, opening it back up, creating a new contact, and adding that to 
> the
> list.
>
> Okay, now here's where it gets strange.  At this point, I'm thinking this 
> is
> a major bug in Outlook.  I mean, if the distribution list doesn't update 
> as
> changes are made to the individual contacts, what's the point?  So like a
> good boy, I try to recreate the problem, but can't.  Every change I make 
> to
> the other contacts in this list makes it to the distribution list.
>
> Any ideas what the freaky/freakin' problem was?  Is there some sort of
> strange caching going on inside the distribution list?  Could it have
> something to do with my contacts being imported from Netscape?  I have had
> other strange issues with my contacts related to the Netscape import.  For
> example, when listing my contacts by Company, which is what I usually do, 
> the
> contacts with no company are split into two groups, those I imported from
> Netscape, and those created in Outlook, but the two groups have the exact
> same heading.
>
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