Tuesday March 17, 2009 Outlook 2007 and IMAP sent folder
Here is one of my pet peeves about outlook. Every now and then I send an email, and for some reason it ends up in the Sent Items folder under "Personal Folders" instead of uploading to my IMAP Sent folder where I can access it via other email clients. I can understand Outlook doing this temporarily if for some reason it couldn't access the IMAP folder, but it seems to do this randomly even when there is a connection to my IMAP server, and gives no warning when it happens (i.e. it just silently stores it locally).
I do not have a fix that stops Outlook from doing this, but I do have a workaround that lets you upload the messages to the IMAP sent folder after the fact. Just open the Sent Items folder in your Personal Folders, then right click on the message in question and choose "Move to Folder". You can then select your IMAP Sent folder and outlook will connect to the IMAP server and upload the message, removing it from your local Sent Items folder in the process.
Posted by rickg ( Mar 17 2009, 07:49:12 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]