Comments on: Make Outlook Work Like GMail

by: Alicia

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:59:04 +0000

Well, I think you should always have up to date email backups. I used to do it manually by saving the .dbx files, until I found http://www.amicutilities.com/outlook-express-backup/ - Outlook Express Backup Genie that does it automatically at regular times.

I choused it over other because it can work with both MS Outlook and Outlook Express

Alicia

by: Greg

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:21:52 +0000

Thanks Dave, that fixes the only complaint I had with my setup. Now all my messages are already marked read.

by: Dave

Fri, 19 May 2006 04:01:46 +0000

Here’s how you can copy sent messages to your inbox and mark them as read.
1. Don’t use a rule that copies your sent items to the inbox. That will always mark the message as unread.
2. Create a rule for messages that you send that cc’s them to yourself.
3. Create a rule for messages that you receive from yourself that marks them as read.

by: Todd

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:22:39 +0000

Just moved to Outlook 2003. For a conversation between you and one other person, try the Activities button under Contacts for a particular contact. (Double click the Contact to open their information.) It gives you a nice view of all incoming and outgoing mail for that person if you select Email. Seems to catch any mail where they were CC’d also. I just added the Conversation button their as well.

by: kkassam

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:02:24 +0000

here’s a custom rule which allows you to “mark as read” incoming and outgoing mail:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/gallery/index.htm#markread
This is helpful if you’re using a rule to copy your sent messages to your inbox (or another folder) and using conversation view to imitate gmail, the messages from you will not be marked as unread or displayed in bold

by: Henry

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 04:45:28 +0000

Outlook can include sent items also - just set up a rule to copy sent items to the inbox, and voila - you have everything in one place!

by: trigun

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:02:25 +0000

I’ve been using categories, colors and “conversations” to make my tons of e-mail a very quick read for a long time now - but I like gmail more because it doesn’t make up a “group heading” line for each conversation which causes lots of wasted space and is just badly formatted redundant info…
If anyone knows how to turn off “group headings” in the “Arrange by Conversation” view - or to set up a custom view that shows the last read or all unread or flagged messages - then we can have a really efficient interface… thanks

by: Brad Meador

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:18:45 +0000

My software organizes Outlook Inbox messages in threaded fashion without requiring you to sort by conversation. We have v2 of ClearContext IMS Pro in beta, which comes custom built with Inbox views that thread Inbox conversations together and sorts them by date or by priority. In addition, we provide a RelatedView feature that allows you to pull up all activity for a given message thread, regardless of item location. If you’re interested, check us out at http://www.clearcontext.com/beta.

Thanks,
Brad Meador
ClearContext

by: TP

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:10:10 +0000

I found a way to get Outlook to behave even more like Gmail. noe how Gmail shows you who each message is from. To enable this in Outlook, go to ‘View–>Arrange By–>Current View–>Customize Current View’ and click the ‘Fields’ button. Change the ordering of the fields to From,Conversation. Voila! now you will see who each message is from under the conversation heading. Now, if only I could find a way to just use Gmail for my company mail instead of having to tweak Outlook so much!

by: JT

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:49:20 +0000

This does not work with majordomo or mail lists that append or prepend for that matter a tag…e g.

[mailList] conversationTitle
[mailList] re: conversationTitle

get counted as seperate conversations… because the ‘re:’ is after the [mailList]