bpelot wrote:

When I try sending an outgoing email to a list, the name checker
won't allow it without manually adding every name to the contacts
file. I have tried turning off the "name checker", but no luck yet.

This is simply not true. Resolving names adds them to the autocompletion
cache, which has nothing whatsoever to do with your Contacts folder.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]