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Outlook 2016 OST question
On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 00:05:03 -0800, T wrote:
As far as I can tell, the OST does not contain the user's contacts or tasks, just their eMail. You've already got all the email on the IMAP server, why try to duplicate that on a local machine? Contacts can be held on an IMAP file too, don't know about tasks. |
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Outlook 2016 OST question
On 01/12/2017 03:54 AM, mechanic wrote:
Contacts can be held on an IMAP file Interesting. I have never seen that. This last customer certainly didn't. |
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In article , lid, T says...
On 01/12/2017 02:30 AM, Dave Doe wrote: In article , , Dave Doe says... In article , lid, T says... On 01/11/2017 06:09 PM, Dave Doe wrote: In article , lid, T says... On 01/11/2017 03:26 PM, Mike Easter wrote: T wrote: I was working on a customer with Outlook 2016. Strange, he was not using an Exchange server, but his Outlook data file created as an OST file instead of a PST file. Is this new behavior for Outlook 2016? Is there a way to force PST on Outlook 2016? This entry's answers mention half a dozen 3rd party converters https://social.technet.microsoft.com...?forum=outlook How to change my OST file to PST outlook 2016? How do yo get Outlook 2016 to open a PST instead of an OST with an iMap account to start with? One way, create the PST file, ensure the account uses it as it's data file. Hi Dave, I usually do this by going into control panel, mail and creating a data file based on the PST file. I couldn't this time as the pst file was corrupted. My question though was how to force a new PST instead of an OST (when using iMap). -T Create a new PST. Add (ie re-add) a new (e-mail) account, and when doing that, *pick* the PST file. I imagine that a distinct dissadvantage of doing this, is that like O 2010 and earlier, you'll have a messy folder tree on the left - given you'll have *the* account, *and* the PST tree. (Maybe that's why MS did it the OST way?) What I noticed was if you create a new email account, you get an ost, like it or not. You can pick an alternative data file (including a PST file) in the creation process. Do the manual setup, POP/IMAP... https://1drv.ms/i/s!AjwgsYmRt63ph9AWxgEYuoHwFe161A If you have an OST that is not corrupted, you can export contacts and tasks. iMap handles the eMail. But if yo come across a corrupted OST, then swearing is permitted. I really do wish folks would stop using Outlook. Thunderbird is so, so much easier to maintain. And it distributes its data, instead of rolling it up in one YUGE file. I setup Thunderbird yesterday. What a POS. I changed the awful behaviour of opening messages in tabs to opening in a new window. Cool. But a showstopper is being unable to get the message marked as read if you open it. It's all based around the preview - either instantly previewed or a timer on previewing length. That's bloody terrible! Outlook is also way superior in functionality - no question there. And I think it's far more elegant. But I'm not gonna have an Outlook vs. Thunderbird debate. -- Duncan. |
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Outlook 2016 OST question
Dave Doe wrote:
But a showstopper is being unable to get the message marked as read if you open it. It's all based around the preview - either instantly previewed or a timer on previewing length. That's bloody terrible! It isn't preview in Tb; it is showing in the message pane or not. You can disable the message pane function. Toggle with F8 (View/ Layout/ Message pane). That way your message won't get marked as read for appearing in the message pane and will be based solely on your opening it in a window as your preference over a tab. -- Mike Easter |
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In article ,
, Dave Doe says... In article , lid, Mike Easter says... Dave Doe wrote: But a showstopper is being unable to get the message marked as read if you open it. It's all based around the preview - either instantly previewed or a timer on previewing length. That's bloody terrible! It isn't preview in Tb; it is showing in the message pane or not. You can disable the message pane function. Toggle with F8 (View/ Layout/ Message pane). That way your message won't get marked as read for appearing in the message pane and will be based solely on your opening it in a window as your preference over a tab. You can toggle the preview pane off, yep (you can call it the message pane if you like). Then, when you double-click and open a message, it is *not* marked as read! Or... there is no way to have messages not marked as read, with the preview/message pane visible. If you turn off that setting to mark the message as read in Preferences, Advanced, Automatically mark messages as read. Then opening them doesn't mark them as read either. The "message" pane is a bloody *preview* pane all day! So the only reasonably way to run it, is to have no preview pane (handy, but oh well), and turn back on automatically mark messages as read, so they will be so when opened in a window. Hopeless conundrum! One wants a preview. Leave the read status alone. Upon opening, mark it as read. I'll say it again, it's a *preview* pane all day - Mozilla needs to take that onboard. I think it's a showstopper - the program's basically unusable! -- Duncan. |
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Dave Doe wrote:
You can toggle the preview pane off, yep (you can call it the message pane if you like). Then, when you double-click and open a message, it is *not* marked as read! It does for me. I reconfigured to be: Message pane off. Display/ Advanced/ Reading: Automatically mark messages as read, Immediately on display Open messages in a new message window When I had opened a message in that fashion, it was marked as read in the thread pane. That being said, I much prefer MY usual configuration to use the message pane and to not open messages in a separate tab or window. Then there needn't be some mechanism for closing the generated reading message windows or tabs. -- Mike Easter |
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Outlook 2016 OST question
On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:02:11 -0800, T wrote:
On 01/12/2017 03:54 AM, mechanic wrote: Contacts can be held on an IMAP file Interesting. I have never seen that. This last customer certainly didn't. http://serverfault.com/questions/235...om-imap-server |
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Outlook 2016 OST question
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 17:04:23 +1300, Dave Doe wrote:
Any other reasonable and free e-mail clients ??? Alpine. Built for imap. |
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mechanic wrote:
Dave Doe wrote: Any other reasonable and free e-mail clients ??? Alpine. Built for imap. I like the way Alpine handles its configuration. It is cross-platform for Mac, Win, Linux and also Nokia. The wp gives it these kudos: "Unlike other console applications targeting developers and experienced users, which often require users to edit a configuration file, Alpine lets users change most configuration options within the software. This makes alpine one of the most easy to learn console-based email clients." I've experimented with Alpine as a newsreader, but not email. -- Mike Easter |
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On 01/12/2017 01:19 PM, Dave Doe wrote:
But a showstopper is being unable to get the message marked as read if you open it. It's all based around the preview - either instantly previewed or a timer on previewing length. Huh??? Something went wrong. |
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On 01/12/2017 01:19 PM, Dave Doe wrote:
You can pick an alternative data file (including a PST file) in the creation process. Do the manual setup, POP/IMAP... https://1drv.ms/i/s!AjwgsYmRt63ph9AWxgEYuoHwFe161A Tried that with a new account. Didn't give me a choice |
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