Re: Questions from a Newbie to Outlook 2007

Outlook is a power user's client, especially for those who need calendaring and automation, and it works best with Exchange server accounts. It's support for IMAP is getting better.... but its not as good as other clients. (It was awful before.)

A lot of people say t-bird is a better for IMAP - what don't you like about it?

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"Don" <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:#yGsPvJAKHA.5092@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Some groups and maillists prefer related questions all be in one message instead of several messages. I'll remember the etiquette here for future messages. Thanks for the heads-up.

I've always thought of Outlook as a power user's email client and avoided its complexity until I had too much email and thought it would be the proper client to handle it all. Your insight may push me back to Thunderbird or Windows Mail and Outlook Express. Unfortunately they also have shortcomings I would rather avoid. Tough decision coming. One big plus for Thunderbird is it is available as a portable application which makes it VERY easy to move to the various computers I use.

Thanks for your terrific explanations and answers.

Hmmmmmm. I just noticed. Outlook marked the original text in this reply. Maybe it will work in an HTML reply too. Maybe Outlook needed to exit and restart for that change to take effect.

Don

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" <outlookmvp@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:u0IZBQJAKHA.3432@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
As an FYI - It's a lot easier to post each question (or two) in a separate message - long posts are harder to read and respond to and may people skip over the end.

I'm not sure why you thought Outlook would be easier to use to manage that many accounts. It tends to be "less than fully satisfying" (quoting someone who posted yesterday) when working with IMAP accounts.

to apply a view to all folders, see http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/grouping.htm. Note that views on IMAP folders are harder to affect and they often revert this method may not work on the IMAP accounts. Creating a custom view and selecting it when you view the folder might work better.

No, you can't change how/when the folders expand. Folders usually do expand when you get new messages in them so you may be able to set the folders to update automatically to make them expand - but as I mentioned earlier, IMAP in outlook sucks, so it may not work for IMAP accounts.

The vertical line in HTML is how html format prefixes. If you want > you need to read all mail in plain text. If you hate the vertical line use the reply option that doesn't prefix.

Outlook is not outlook express and has never displayed images inline (other than embedded images in HTML). You need to select them to preview in Outlook 2007. See http://www.slipstick.com/mail1/inline.asp for more info. You obviously need to download attachments in IMAP to be able to view them, but they should be previewable in the IMAP folders, just as they would be in other folders.

Rather than trusting mail from yourself, trust mail to and from the mailing list - most lists are configured to have the list address as the to or from.

You can have all pop delivered to one inbox or set each to go to a different folder but not IMAP. IMAP is a server account and you download copies of the messages. Each account needs its own folder or all the mail will be uploaded to one IMAP account. if you use rules to move IMAP mail to a different mailbox they will be marked for deletion from the IMAP account.

Outlook is a mail client, not a newsreader. It's primarily an exchange client and MAPI doesn't handle NNTP. Businesses don't usually want users to access newsgroups - they'd rather have the effort put into making outlook a great PIM. There are some NNTP addins you can use. See http://outlook-tips.net/howto/news.htm - newshound is nice and supports reading the TechNet and msdn forums.

There are sync tools you can use to share across multiple computers but IMAP is probably better than any sync tool, unless you also need to share calendar and contacts. Honestly, if there are clients that let you keep all IMAP accounts in one inbox, you may be better using it than outlook. See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.asp and http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.asp for utilities and methods.



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