Why Outlook rules copy a message when you asked for it to be moved

By tim, on September 30th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Ever wished computers had a “do what I mean” button?

Here’s a case in point. I use Outlook/Exchange rules to sort email into subfolders. I set up a new rule, and was annoyed to find that while messages were correctly being moved into the selected folder, they were not being deleted from the source

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September 30th, 2009 | Category: email, exchange, microsoft, windows | 2 comments

Apple Snow Leopard and Exchange: the real story

By tim, on August 31st, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Apple’s Snow Leopard (OS 10.6) came out last week, and one of its most hyped features is native support for Microsoft Exchange. Here’s what Apple says:

With Snow Leopard, the Mac is the only computer with built-in support for the latest version of Microsoft Exchange Server. So you can use your Mac

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August 31st, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: apple, email, exchange, microsoft | 25 comments

Outlook HTML is better broken and safe, than rich and dangerous

By tim, on June 25th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The campaign at fixoutlook.org is brilliant. Outlook 2010 will have broken HTML support, it says, because it will use Word to render HTML:

Microsoft has confirmed they plan on using the Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010. This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables

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June 25th, 2009 | Category: email, microsoft, software | 7 comments

Xobni: Outlook users should try this now

By tim, on May 10th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Yes, Xobni is brilliant.

Have you ever tried sorting an Outlook inbox by conversation? Of course Outlook goes into a thrash while it prepares the view. Then when it has finished, it does not work right. It has a limited view of what a conversation is, based on the email title. It does not

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May 10th, 2008 | Category: email, internet, microsoft, software, windows | One comment