Create contact lists

A contact list is a collection of email addresses, and is useful for sending email to a group of people. Contact lists are sometimes referred to as distribution lists.

For example, create a contact list named My Book Club and add all the members of your book club to it. When you want to send an email message to everyone in the club, just enter "My Book Club" in the To line of the email.

By default, contact lists are created in the default Contacts folder, and you can also see them under Your contact lists. If you want to save the contact list in a different folder, select the folder before you select New contact list.

Create a contact list

  1. On the People page, on the toolbar, select the arrow next to New contact, and then select New contact list.

  2. Enter a name for the list, and then add names or email addresses.

  3. Select Create.