Arrange by Conversation not working

[jbaltrus]

Hi all,

I am using Outlook 2007 on a new computer and have noticed that now
when I reply back and forth with people in a conversation, my Outlook
client continually prepends another "RE:" to the subject line every
time I reply. For example if I write an email with the subject "Hello
world" my friend replies back "RE: Hello world". When I reply a second
and third time we get "RE: RE: RE: Hello world" and on and on. I've
done some testing and the "RE:" only get added after the first one by
my Outlook and not my friend's. At my last job I was using Outlook
2007 having email conversations with the same people and it would only
prepend "RE:" once per conversation.

So what has changed? I using a new computer with a new Outlook 2007
install (now SP1)and a different mail server (different job). I have
set up my Outlook profile on some other computers and I am seeing the
same behavior. Is this a setting on Exchange or is it something I can
configure within Outlook?

I have seen questions like mine around the 'net but nothing exactly
like what I am experiencing and no really good answers.

Please help! The problem this causes is when I want to group emails by
Conversation, Outlook splits up my conversations because they all have
differing numbers of "RE:" in the subject line even though they are
the same conversation and should be grouped together.

Thank you in advance!

Joel

 

[Diane Poremsky]

The recipients email client is adding an extra space before their RE so
outlook doesn't know to delete the RE and adds to it.

 

[jbaltrus]

The recipients email client is adding an extra space before their RE so
outlook doesn't know to delete the RE and adds to it.

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Hi all,

I am using Outlook 2007 on a new computer and have noticed that now
when I reply back and forth with people in a conversation, my Outlook
client continually prepends another "RE:" to the subject line every
time I reply. For example if I write an email with the subject "Hello
world" my friend replies back "RE: Hello world". When I reply a second
and third time we get "RE: RE: RE: Hello world" and on and on. I've
done some testing and the "RE:" only get added after the first one by
my Outlook and not my friend's. At my last job I was using Outlook
2007 having email conversations with the same people and it would only
prepend "RE:" once per conversation.

So what has changed? I using a new computer with a new Outlook 2007
install (now SP1)and a different mail server (different job). I have
set up my Outlook profile on some other computers and I am seeing the
same behavior. Is this a setting on Exchange or is it something I can
configure within Outlook?

I have seen questions like mine around the 'net but nothing exactly
like what I am experiencing and no really good answers.

Please help! The problem this causes is when I want to group emails by
Conversation, Outlook splits up my conversations because they all have
differing numbers of "RE:" in the subject line even though they are
the same conversation and should be grouped together.

Thank you in advance!

Joel- Hide quoted text -

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Hi Diane!

Thanks for the quick response.

From your message it sounds like you are saying my friend's email
client (Outlook 2003) is adding a space at the beginning of the
subject line. Then when my Outlook 2007 client sees this it puts
another RE: in front because it doesn't see the original RE:?

Is there a way to configure the Outlook client to stop this behavior?

Thank again,

Joel