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Thanks to everyone for their responses.
I'm afraid though that the rant stands. I dropped a comment on Jimmy
May's blog about availability on WU and he agreed that it was a good
question.
# Julian Knight said on March 12, 2009 4:40 PM:
" You should feel absolutely confident in advising your
customers to download, install, and ultimately deploy this package
within their infrastructure. This package represents a roll-up of
performance related improvements that delivers what we believe to be
the highest quality version of Outlook that Microsoft has released to
date."
So why hasn't this been made available on WU?
Regards, Julian.
# Jimmy May said on March 12, 2009 5:09 PM:
Great question. I'm seeking info from the product group right
now. Stay tuned.
Julian, this is the most exciting update since Vista SP1. Go for
it.
However, I can also confirm that this update DOES NOT resolve this
really critical bug.
Sadly, although the SP2 update does indeed make OL much faster with
IMAP, I still can't use it as my main mail client with this bug in.
To reproduce the bug:
1) Make sure that OL is set either not to send reply requests or is
set to prompt for them
2) Set up an IMAP account and set it as the default account and that
doesn't receive spam
3) Set up a second IMAP account that does receive spam emails
4) Restart OL and see that the DEFAULT account is sending emails that
do not appear in any folder. Checking the content of the emails
reveals that they are reply requested responses from the 2nd account
not the default one
5) Panic as you realise that your supposedly secure, spam-free account
is broadcasting rubbish to the world!
6) Go offline
7) Remove the spammy account
8) See that the outgoing queue is suddenly empty.
I'm afraid though that the rant stands. I dropped a comment on Jimmy
May's blog about availability on WU and he agreed that it was a good
question.
# Julian Knight said on March 12, 2009 4:40 PM:
" You should feel absolutely confident in advising your
customers to download, install, and ultimately deploy this package
within their infrastructure. This package represents a roll-up of
performance related improvements that delivers what we believe to be
the highest quality version of Outlook that Microsoft has released to
date."
So why hasn't this been made available on WU?
Regards, Julian.
# Jimmy May said on March 12, 2009 5:09 PM:
Great question. I'm seeking info from the product group right
now. Stay tuned.
Julian, this is the most exciting update since Vista SP1. Go for
it.
However, I can also confirm that this update DOES NOT resolve this
really critical bug.
Sadly, although the SP2 update does indeed make OL much faster with
IMAP, I still can't use it as my main mail client with this bug in.
To reproduce the bug:
1) Make sure that OL is set either not to send reply requests or is
set to prompt for them
2) Set up an IMAP account and set it as the default account and that
doesn't receive spam
3) Set up a second IMAP account that does receive spam emails
4) Restart OL and see that the DEFAULT account is sending emails that
do not appear in any folder. Checking the content of the emails
reveals that they are reply requested responses from the 2nd account
not the default one
5) Panic as you realise that your supposedly secure, spam-free account
is broadcasting rubbish to the world!
6) Go offline
7) Remove the spammy account
8) See that the outgoing queue is suddenly empty.