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Man there are soooo many bugs when you mix Outlook 2003 and POP accounts in
the same profile. Throw in working offline with this set up and Outlook 2003
is completely unusable. It's like MS took 2 steps forward with OL2003 and 5
steps back. Here's a quick rundown
1) Rules are a mess. Why can't we have TRUE client side rules? If you're not
connected to Exchange Server then you can't edit rules (even the blatantly
client side ones) that for instance take a message coming in through the pop
account and move them to a local folder in a PST.
2) If you start Outlook and haven't connected to Exchange (like, you're off
the network or VPN is shut off) your rules don't run AT ALL. Even the client
side ones. (this bug is tricky and doesn't happen if you start up in "Work
Offline" mode... which isn't the default and is generally discouraged by
Microsoft because Cached Exchange Mode renders "Work Offline" redundant).
3) Is it me or are the "After I send message" rules completely shut off? I
can't get ANY of them to work. Why can't we create a rule that moves (MOVES
not copy) a message to a local folder when it is sent through a POP account?
4) If you set your POP account to "Leave messages on the server" Outlook has
the habit of re-downloading duplicates. This doesn't happen all the time...
I haven't isolated what might cause it. Maybe this bug is caused by some
rules I've set up to process incoming POP mail... but, why should it? It
worked beautifully in Outlook 2002!
the same profile. Throw in working offline with this set up and Outlook 2003
is completely unusable. It's like MS took 2 steps forward with OL2003 and 5
steps back. Here's a quick rundown
1) Rules are a mess. Why can't we have TRUE client side rules? If you're not
connected to Exchange Server then you can't edit rules (even the blatantly
client side ones) that for instance take a message coming in through the pop
account and move them to a local folder in a PST.
2) If you start Outlook and haven't connected to Exchange (like, you're off
the network or VPN is shut off) your rules don't run AT ALL. Even the client
side ones. (this bug is tricky and doesn't happen if you start up in "Work
Offline" mode... which isn't the default and is generally discouraged by
Microsoft because Cached Exchange Mode renders "Work Offline" redundant).
3) Is it me or are the "After I send message" rules completely shut off? I
can't get ANY of them to work. Why can't we create a rule that moves (MOVES
not copy) a message to a local folder when it is sent through a POP account?
4) If you set your POP account to "Leave messages on the server" Outlook has
the habit of re-downloading duplicates. This doesn't happen all the time...
I haven't isolated what might cause it. Maybe this bug is caused by some
rules I've set up to process incoming POP mail... but, why should it? It
worked beautifully in Outlook 2002!