Re: Updating e-mail addresses in distribution lists

From: Chuck Davis (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 17:29:05 -0800

>-----Original Message-----
>The default Display Name is not in play here.
>Update Now has rarely, if ever, worked for Distributions
Lists. That's one
>of many reasons few of us use them.
>--
>Russ Valentine
>[MVP-Outlook]
>"lanboy" <lanboy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>news:8DCD855F-8139-49E9-BF97-0C0FB143EEFF@microsoft.com...
>> When a Contact's e-mail address is changed in Contacts,
the "Update Now"
>> button in a distribution list does not update the
contacts e-mail address
>> in
>> the distribution list. The change in the Contact also
changes the Display
>> Name (First Last (e-mail address)) which is, I think,
why the distribution
>> list remains unchanged. The Default display name should
not contain the
>> e-mail address to make managing distribution lists easier.
>
>
>.
>
You will find that members of the distribution list that
existed on a prior release will not update in the current
release. Remove the older members and Select Members again.
Following that they will update with new e-mail addresses.
I use Alt+W, to update and Alt+S to save the distribution list.

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