In the folder properties dialog, a text-box containing the name of the folder appears. The text-box is not disabled, yet its contents cannot be edited. To change the mail folder name, the user must click the Customize button.

This is illogical and confusing. Microsoft should either allow editing of the name without having to click Customize or disable the text-box altogether.

We need field level replication and a Conflict Resolver like SQL Server.

When two users make offline modifications to the same public folder entry, then they get conflict errors.

This has similar issues to SQL Server Replication but more because:

It works at an entire email level, not a field level like SQL.

The conflict resolver doesn’t even point out the differences you have to look through them manually

While developing our product SSW eXtreme Emails! we wanted to add a feature that sends an email with history. We wanted it to simulate how Outlook keeps the history on an email. So by code we wanted to:

• Go to Sent Items
• Find the last email sent with that subject (sort by DateSent)

However, you can’t sort on the Sent field. It seems totally crazy to me that the sort method cannot be used on the sent field.

This is a primary field I would want to sort on!

By the way: The DateModified has a sort method.

When you send an email you could have a flag “Requires Action” or “FYI”.

When you look in your sent items there should be a column showing the status:

• Not received
• Received – read
• Received – unread
• Replied
• Forwarded
• Deleted
• Recalled

Note: This isn’t a normal Outlook feature, it requires Exchange Server.

Where is the status bar, as in Internet Explorer?

When you receive HTML email, you want to be able to see the URL when you hover over a hyperlink.

This autocomplete feature is very useful however when I move to a new PC and setup my outlook with my old Outlook Data File (.pst) I lose all my history of email addresses. Very disappointing.

If we want to keep it Microsoft expects us to figure out NK2 files or something

In addition this file appears to be binary, instead of XML, so we cant work with them eg. I want to combine 2 files together from different PCs.

The current Junk Mail/Adult Content filters do nothing more than highlight messages in the Inbox. And the filtering mechanism itself isn’t particularly good. Sure, third-party products like SpamNet work with Outlook. But Microsoft ought to be able to a better job itself.

Yes, it would be nice not to have to switch to Outlook Express to use newsgroups. And although I would like to see the functionality in Outlook, I am of the belief that there are so many other things that the Outlook team needs to do, that it just cant be justified.

Newsgroups are not used by average Jo. The Outlook team should stick to core issues.

When I am in Sydney and want to make a 9AM appointment (New York time) it should be as simple as choosing [9am] [New York] Currently I have to work it backwards and enter it in Sydney time. All I need is a “Time Zone” combo. The crazy thing is if you cycle through the properties of a calendar item the “Time Zone” value is there – it is just not exposed on the UI. Even when I reply to an appointment I can see both time zones! As an example I get:

Webinar:    .NET Enterprise Services Essentials
Time:       Thursday, April 17, 2003, 11:00 a.m. PDT (2:00 p.m. EST)
Duration:   One hour, including a Q&A

Our observations suggest that all calendar entries created with Microsoft Outlook are in Rich Text format. Seeing this has a message size overhead and is less supported by all mail clients, we’d like to see an option for HTML formatting. From what we can tell, the iCalendar format that Outlook makes use of does not have any requirements for rich text.