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]