Preview Pane / multiple emails selected

[Peter Stickney]

I am part of the IT Staff at a medium size company and we have been
migrating workers to Outlook 2000. The President of the Company can get
thousands of emails per day, many of them SPAM. We recently moved him to
Outlook 2000 from Outlook Express and he misses the selection functionality
of Outlook Express.


He could click on one message, hold down the control key, then click on
other messages that he thought were SPAM. Each time he clicked on a new
message, a preview of the message would appear in the preview pane. He could
then decide if it was SPAM (and go on to the next message) or click it again
if he wanted to save it to read. This gave him a quick way to go through all
the messages he received and easily delete all of the messages that he did
not want to save. In
Outlook 2000, if he holds down the control key and clicks on a second
message, then the first message is still always displayed in the preview
pane. Is there any way to change this so that whatever message he has
selected at the
time will be displayed in the preview pane?

any help would be appreciated.

-peter

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I am part of the IT Staff at a medium size company and we have been
migrating workers to Outlook 2000. The President of the Company can
get thousands of emails per day, many of them SPAM. We recently
moved him to Outlook 2000 from Outlook Express and he misses the
selection functionality of Outlook Express.


He could click on one message, hold down the control key, then click
on other messages that he thought were SPAM. Each time he clicked on
a new message, a preview of the message would appear in the preview
pane. He could then decide if it was SPAM (and go on to the next
message) or click it again if he wanted to save it to read. This gave
him a quick way to go through all the messages he received and easily
delete all of the messages that he did not want to save. In
Outlook 2000, if he holds down the control key and clicks on a second
message, then the first message is still always displayed in the
preview pane. Is there any way to change this so that whatever
message he has selected at the
time will be displayed in the preview pane?

I think that's just the way it works. The larger question is, what are you
doing to prevent the spam coming in in the first place? Do you have Exchange
server? If so, what version? Do you have any other mail server in house?

 

[Peter Stickney]

We do not have exchange at the moment. We have MDaemon, which we are not
happy with for many reasons, lack of spam filtering being one of them. we
are moving to a linux solution.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

he should turn the preview pane off before deleting - but like lanwench
said, what are you doing to keep spam out of his mailbox?

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
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