Problems with Outlook 2007

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akita

I’ve recently installed Outlook 2007 (under Vista Ultimate) as part of the
whole 2007 Office suite.

Perhaps someone here could help me to address the following three issues I
have encountered:

1. no new mail notifications (neither audio nor visual)
2. no send/receive dialog box (needs to be opened manually)
3. occasionally loses account passwords

Thanks for all help and advice.
 
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ozziaj

Sorry, yes, I forgot to mention I'm using MAPI accounts (all hotmail accounts
via Outlook connector).

And BTW, I've checked & rechecked all relevant settings, and as far as I can
tell I have all relevant options enabled.

Thanks for helping.
 
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Roady [MVP]

1) Notifications are only shown for mail that is being delivered to the
Inbox folder of the folder set that holds Outlook today. Since Hotmail
accounts have their own separate folder sets you can't get a notification.

2) That is normal; it's a background process. There is no use to show this
dialog for every send/receive.

3) You can contact Live support for this. I don't know how many accounts
they support in a single Outlook mail profile. It could be a bug but it
could also simply be a limitation.
 
A

akita

Roady said:
1) Notifications are only shown for mail that is being delivered to the
Inbox folder of the folder set that holds Outlook today. Since Hotmail
accounts have their own separate folder sets you can't get a notification.

2) That is normal; it's a background process. There is no use to show this
dialog for every send/receive.

3) You can contact Live support for this. I don't know how many accounts
they support in a single Outlook mail profile. It could be a bug but it
could also simply be a limitation.
Hi Roady;

Thanks for the detailed heads-up - that explains a fair few things.

So OK, let me see if I got this right:

Outlook 2007 treats IMAP based accounts (i.e. hotmail accounts) differently
to let’s say your average pop3 account. Hence the IMAP accounts don’t show up
in the Personal folder, nor do they allow for notification

Wasn’t the idea of the addition of the Outlook Connector to integrate IMAP
accounts into Outlook?

Well, if that integration is limited, as it now seems to be, what’s the
point of having Outlook Connector?

One rather important aspect of any email client is to notify the user of
incoming mail. If Outlook doesn’t do that for integrated accounts such as
IMAP, then it’s rather useless to most users that use IMAP accounts – and
yes, our numbers are growing rapidly.

This limitation, plus the various other, and rather serious, instability
issues of Outlook 2007 (Word as the new HTML client instead of far more
secure IE, Outlook’s inability to handle large inboxes, disastrous
performance issues, instabilities of al sorts and so on) as reported across
the net, really raises this question:

Is it time to trash Outlook and simply use an online based email client such
as Windows Live Mail, Gmail et al?

From a user-friendly point of view that answer is definitely a yes. From a
security point of view it is yes again. From a cost analysis point of view
it’s yes yet again.

As much as I like Outlook, I can see the end of its life, its slow death, so
to speak, going the way Eudora and others went before.

It’s one of those prime examples where some guys inside Microsoft had some
very bright ideas only to be knocked down by someone else inside Microsoft
who simply can’t see the future lurking around that corner.

It’s a shame really, and something Bill Gates should perhaps concentrate his
not inconsiderable influence on. Would be a shame to see Outlook pass into
the land of never-ever-again …

As for this chappy, I’m going to kick out Outlook 2007 and use Windows Live
Mail which by all accounts seems to have far less problems.
 
P

Peter Foldes

Also you might not want to multipost this to different newsgroups as you did

--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

akita said:
Roady said:
1) Notifications are only shown for mail that is being delivered to the
Inbox folder of the folder set that holds Outlook today. Since Hotmail
accounts have their own separate folder sets you can't get a notification.

2) That is normal; it's a background process. There is no use to show this
dialog for every send/receive.

3) You can contact Live support for this. I don't know how many accounts
they support in a single Outlook mail profile. It could be a bug but it
could also simply be a limitation.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


http://www.msoutlook.info/
Real World Questions, Real World Answers
Hi Roady;

Thanks for the detailed heads-up - that explains a fair few things.

So OK, let me see if I got this right:

Outlook 2007 treats IMAP based accounts (i.e. hotmail accounts) differently
to let’s say your average pop3 account. Hence the IMAP accounts don’t show up
in the Personal folder, nor do they allow for notification

Wasn’t the idea of the addition of the Outlook Connector to integrate IMAP
accounts into Outlook?

Well, if that integration is limited, as it now seems to be, what’s the
point of having Outlook Connector?

One rather important aspect of any email client is to notify the user of
incoming mail. If Outlook doesn’t do that for integrated accounts such as
IMAP, then it’s rather useless to most users that use IMAP accounts – and
yes, our numbers are growing rapidly.

This limitation, plus the various other, and rather serious, instability
issues of Outlook 2007 (Word as the new HTML client instead of far more
secure IE, Outlook’s inability to handle large inboxes, disastrous
performance issues, instabilities of al sorts and so on) as reported across
the net, really raises this question:

Is it time to trash Outlook and simply use an online based email client such
as Windows Live Mail, Gmail et al?

From a user-friendly point of view that answer is definitely a yes. From a
security point of view it is yes again. From a cost analysis point of view
it’s yes yet again.

As much as I like Outlook, I can see the end of its life, its slow death, so
to speak, going the way Eudora and others went before.

It’s one of those prime examples where some guys inside Microsoft had some
very bright ideas only to be knocked down by someone else inside Microsoft
who simply can’t see the future lurking around that corner.

It’s a shame really, and something Bill Gates should perhaps concentrate his
not inconsiderable influence on. Would be a shame to see Outlook pass into
the land of never-ever-again …

As for this chappy, I’m going to kick out Outlook 2007 and use Windows Live
Mail which by all accounts seems to have far less problems.
 
O

ozziaj

Peter Foldes said:
Also you might not want to multipost this to different newsgroups as you did

With all due respect, mate, your reply is an utetr waste of time, space and
bandwidth.

If you've got something conctructive up your seelve fine, if not, well,
don't bother replying.

FYI: contrary to what you and other like-minded souls here might think,
multiple posting is called "maximising results" - something any Microsoft
certified 'wahtever' should be all too familar with. But perhaps you slept
through that little part of your MCSE training ...
 
O

ozziaj

Peter Foldes said:
Perhaps you should read the following

http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

Bollocks!

There's nothing wrong with selective multiposting; it does increase the
number of useful replies (flames such as yours excluded). In fact it's a part
of every researcher's toolbox.

If some MVP's take offence to it, so be it.

Note that I wrote "selective" as opposed to "indiscriminate" ...
 
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Roady [MVP]

Crossposting is the preferred way to address a single issue in multiple
newsgroups at once.
If there is no way to crosspost and you have to multipost it is being
considered polite to make a note of that in your post so that people can
read the full discussion. This will make troubleshooting more convenient
since the helper have full overview of all the details related to the issue.
 

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