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Don
I moved to Outlook 2007 because I have far too many email accounts to
monitor... 12 IMAP accounts and 8 POP 3 accounts.
This means I have over 100 email folders. Is there a global setting to
configure a view that will apply to every folder? For example I want
certain columns in the message list for every single folder. It will be a
royal pain to have to do that one folder at a time. In Windows Explorer you
can apply a folder view set in one folder to every folder with the push of a
button. Can I do that in Outlook?
With this many accounts, I naturally want to keep them all collapsed unless
I have a new message to read. Unfortunately, the root of an IMAP account
does not turn bold and display the number of new messages in the subfolders
like is done in a POP folder with sub folders. Instead I have to expand
each root and then the sub folders with new messages are bold and have the
number of new messages displayed. Is there a configuration setting to
change this behaviour so I don't have to expand 12 accounts to see where I
have new messages?
I have set replies and forwards to prefix each line of the original message
with the "greater than" mark (>). But it doesn't happen. I chose the >
because not all messages I write are rtf or html and the vertical line would
not be good. Am I missing something?
I get lots of messages with attachments, typically jpg and other pictures.
In POP folders in Outlook Express these attachments can be viewed inline in
the preview pane. In Outlook 2007 they can't or I have not found the right
setting to change. Since these are actual attachments and not web beacons,
web bugs or links to external content the setting to not allow download of
such things should not impact this. Am I overlooking a setting somewhere?
(I assume in an IMAP account I have to actually download the message and
maybe even transfer it to a different folder before I can view the
attachment by any method at all)
I send mail to various maillists. In at least one of them, when my message
comes back to me it is copied to the junk mail folder and marked for
deletion in the inbox folder. I assume Outlook's junk mail filter thinks I
don't send mail to myself so when it sees that my account sent the message
in question it determines it is junk. To fix this I had to mark my
addresses as safe senders/recipients. That means when real junk mail with
my address spoofed as the sender arrives it will not be recognized as junk
mail. Is there a better work around for this?
In my previous email client I was able to specify a global inbox for my POP
and IMAP accounts. I am either missing something or the only way to do that
in Outlook is to set up a message rule or filter. Which is it?
Outlook can deal with IMAP, POP, SMTP, RSS, Exchange and more types of
accounts. So why do I have to use Windows Mail or Outlook Express to
subscribe to a newsgroup?
I chose to set up my accounts as IMAP where possible because I jump between
two desktops and a laptop with two of them dual booting (Yes, I have legal
licenses for all the Outlook installations). The POP accounts will
disappear when everyone gets used to the new accounts addresses. If
reverting to POP would fix some or all of these problems is there a simple
way to keep them all in sync across the three computers? Would there be
addins that will fix some or all of these problems?
Thanks for the help. This has been a far more frustrating experience than I
had anticipated.
Don
monitor... 12 IMAP accounts and 8 POP 3 accounts.
This means I have over 100 email folders. Is there a global setting to
configure a view that will apply to every folder? For example I want
certain columns in the message list for every single folder. It will be a
royal pain to have to do that one folder at a time. In Windows Explorer you
can apply a folder view set in one folder to every folder with the push of a
button. Can I do that in Outlook?
With this many accounts, I naturally want to keep them all collapsed unless
I have a new message to read. Unfortunately, the root of an IMAP account
does not turn bold and display the number of new messages in the subfolders
like is done in a POP folder with sub folders. Instead I have to expand
each root and then the sub folders with new messages are bold and have the
number of new messages displayed. Is there a configuration setting to
change this behaviour so I don't have to expand 12 accounts to see where I
have new messages?
I have set replies and forwards to prefix each line of the original message
with the "greater than" mark (>). But it doesn't happen. I chose the >
because not all messages I write are rtf or html and the vertical line would
not be good. Am I missing something?
I get lots of messages with attachments, typically jpg and other pictures.
In POP folders in Outlook Express these attachments can be viewed inline in
the preview pane. In Outlook 2007 they can't or I have not found the right
setting to change. Since these are actual attachments and not web beacons,
web bugs or links to external content the setting to not allow download of
such things should not impact this. Am I overlooking a setting somewhere?
(I assume in an IMAP account I have to actually download the message and
maybe even transfer it to a different folder before I can view the
attachment by any method at all)
I send mail to various maillists. In at least one of them, when my message
comes back to me it is copied to the junk mail folder and marked for
deletion in the inbox folder. I assume Outlook's junk mail filter thinks I
don't send mail to myself so when it sees that my account sent the message
in question it determines it is junk. To fix this I had to mark my
addresses as safe senders/recipients. That means when real junk mail with
my address spoofed as the sender arrives it will not be recognized as junk
mail. Is there a better work around for this?
In my previous email client I was able to specify a global inbox for my POP
and IMAP accounts. I am either missing something or the only way to do that
in Outlook is to set up a message rule or filter. Which is it?
Outlook can deal with IMAP, POP, SMTP, RSS, Exchange and more types of
accounts. So why do I have to use Windows Mail or Outlook Express to
subscribe to a newsgroup?
I chose to set up my accounts as IMAP where possible because I jump between
two desktops and a laptop with two of them dual booting (Yes, I have legal
licenses for all the Outlook installations). The POP accounts will
disappear when everyone gets used to the new accounts addresses. If
reverting to POP would fix some or all of these problems is there a simple
way to keep them all in sync across the three computers? Would there be
addins that will fix some or all of these problems?
Thanks for the help. This has been a far more frustrating experience than I
had anticipated.
Don