Tuesday February 10, 2009 Automatically download full emails and attachments in Outlook 2007
Today I changed my work email client from Thunderbird to Outlook 2007. Let's just say that it was not an entirely pleasant experience. Microsoft provides zero support for migrating existing settings from Thunderbird, so everything was manual. Fortunately I use IMAP and leave most of my messages on the server, so at least I kept my recent email history.
One of the most aggrevating experiences for me after the move was clicking on emails only to have Outlook tell me that they weren't downloaded yet, and do I want to mark them for downloading? Uh, yes, that's way I clicked on the message in the first place, right? Why can't outlook just do that for you when you open a message, I mean come on.
Anyway, I found a setting that seems to fix this issue, at the expense of some extra initial download time. To get Outlook 2007 to automatically download full messages including attachments, do the following:
- Go to the Tools menu and select Options...
- Select the Mail Setup tab and click the Send/Receive... button
- Select All Accounts and hit the Edit... button.
- Select the "Download complete items including attachments for subscribed folders".
Finally, close all those windows and hit the old "Send/Receive" button in the toolbar. It should now spend a bunch of time actually downloading emails instead of just teaser headers.
Posted by rickg ( Feb 10 2009, 01:23:36 PM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Wednesday December 10, 2008 Too Big to Fail = Too Big
In light of all the bailouts of various companies deemed "too big to fail", maybe it is time to start thinking about stopping a merger if the resulting company falls into that category, or breaking up companies that are already at that point? If a company becomes soo big that they just "assume" the government will bail them out in case of failure, then it seems natural that their CEOs will take dramatic risks in search of ever increasing profits, knowing that the american tax payer will be their safety net in case of failure.
I personally don't like the idea of interfering with the market in general, but I do believe that monopolies, cartels, trusts, etc. are bad for the market, and maybe we just need to add "too big to fail" to that list as well.
Thoughts (as if anyone reads this blog)?
Posted by rickg ( Dec 10 2008, 05:33:33 PM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]