Outlook 2007 - Salutation In Replies

[Jeff Gaines]

I have just installed the Outlook 2007 trial and managed to import my
contacts (a pain) and set up one of my email accounts.

In previous email clients I have always had the option to start a reply
with 'On date someone said' but I am not getting this in Outlook.

Can somebody tell me what I need to do please?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have just installed the Outlook 2007 trial and managed to import my
contacts (a pain) and set up one of my email accounts.

Never import from prior versions of Outlook, There's no need qand you can
damage your mail profile.

In previous email clients I have always had the option to start a
reply with 'On date someone said' but I am not getting this in
Outlook.

You need to have software that will accomplish this, like Outlook-Quotefix.
However, Outlook-Quotefix works only with Plain Text messages and it won't
work with Outlook 2007 as of yet.

 

[Jeff Gaines]

Never import from prior versions of Outlook, There's no need qand you can
damage your mail profile.

I didn't
I exported my addresses from TheBat! in ldif format but then had to import
them into OE before getting them into Outlook, ludicrous that Outlook
doesn't import ldif itself.
If I decide to keep Outlook then I will need to get several hundred emails
into it somehow from a variety of mailing lists. Unfortunately it still
doesn't seem to use the Unix mailbox format which was an accepted standard
long before MSFT came on the (Internet) scene.

You need to have software that will accomplish this, like
Outlook-Quotefix. However, Outlook-Quotefix works only with Plain Text
messages and it won't work with Outlook 2007 as of yet.

Oh dear :-(
That may be the final nail in the coffin.

 

[Brian Tillman]

If I decide to keep Outlook then I will need to get several hundred
emails into it somehow from a variety of mailing lists. Unfortunately
it still doesn't seem to use the Unix mailbox format which was an
accepted standard long before MSFT came on the (Internet) scene.

The process to move mbox data to Outlook is roughly the same as what you
used for the contacts: use Outlook Express an a intermediary tool. The
article I'm about to cite is for Mozilla, but if TheBat uses mbox format, it
shoujld apply there as well:
http://sillydog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2062

 

[Jeff Gaines]

The process to move mbox data to Outlook is roughly the same as what you
used for the contacts: use Outlook Express an a intermediary tool. The
article I'm about to cite is for Mozilla, but if TheBat uses mbox format,
it shoujld apply there as well:
http://sillydog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2062

Thanks for that Brian

I am trying Barca 2 now, it's a bit more standard.