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If you drag an item into a folder which has a home page (for example, the root of the Inbox, which has Outlook Today), there is no way to access the item, except by disabling the folder’s home page. The setting to disable the home page is buried in the Folder Properties, and many users may not know where to find it.
Outlook should display a warning that the item will not be visible if you attempt to move an item into a folder which has a home page.
I love the Move To Folder option and use it every day. However I run my PC at a resolution of 1400×1050 and this list is not long enough. Please increase the length by 3 times.
Figure: The list is too short at 1400×1050 screen resolution
Why call it Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders File (.pst)?
Microsoft please change it to Microsoft Outlook 2003 Personal Folders File (.pst)?
Note: And NO I don’t believe the file format will never change again
Figure: No consistency and no forward thinking by Microsoft here
When I click “Subject” I would expect that the yellow items are grouped together. The replied mails should be in the same group as the original mails, even if they have the prefix “Re:” or “Fwd:” in their subjects.
Figure: The yellow items should be in the same group
And other ones along the same lines – these 3 should be together
Figure: Screen capture from Outlook 2003 Beta 2
Figure: Outlook won’t thread the two messages together
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:
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:
Note: This isn’t a normal Outlook feature, it requires Exchange Server.
Figure: Mail item properties dialog
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.
Figure: No status bar when reading emails in Outlook
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.
Figure: AutoComplete feature in use