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[Guest]

Any ideas?

Situation:

Boss and peon using Outlook 2003 and Exchange Server 2003.

Boss wants peon to read his email and red flag anything he should give
attention to right away. However, he wants all his email to stay
"unread" status till he reads them himself. They claim they were able
to do this before some system changes, and now it's not working right.

I have delegated boss' mailbox to peon. Peon has her own mailbox and
his mailbox open in Outlook. I want her mail to be marked read when
she reads it, but not for his to be marked read when she reads it.
Also I want her to be able to red flag stuff for him. What am I
missing here?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You can't have a different "read" status to a single message in the same
mailbox. You could however decide on a flag color which means that she has
read it but doesn't require direct attention.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-FREE tool; QuickMail. Create new Outlook items anywhere from within Windows
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data

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Any ideas?

Situation:

Boss and peon using Outlook 2003 and Exchange Server 2003.

Boss wants peon to read his email and red flag anything he should give
attention to right away. However, he wants all his email to stay
"unread" status till he reads them himself. They claim they were able
to do this before some system changes, and now it's not working right.

I have delegated boss' mailbox to peon. Peon has her own mailbox and
his mailbox open in Outlook. I want her mail to be marked read when
she reads it, but not for his to be marked read when she reads it.
Also I want her to be able to red flag stuff for him. What am I
missing here?

 

[Guest]

Actually, I think there IS a way to make this work. There is a setting that
will allow you to view a message in the reading pane without marking it as
having been read. Peon can scan the message in the reading pane, flag it
appropriately and voila, the boss sees it as being Unread.

The setting is here:
Tools
Options
"Other" tab
Click "Reading Pane" button
Uncheck the box "Mark items as read when viewd in the Reading Pane.

Note, the Peon can still end up marking something as Read by actually
Opening the email instead of just previewing it. But if she does she can just
right click the message in the inbox and "Mark as Unread" again.

Hope you see this response. And that it might actually be relevant to
someone after all this time.