[Cialug] Stupid Software; Feature Don't Work!

[murraymckee at wellsfargo.com]

I had the same problem.  It turns out that not only do you have to set
up offline use for your exchange you have to set it up on each folder as
well.  

I did eventually used that to my advantage.  I wrote a rule that moved
e-mails more than 100K to a 'large e-mails' folder and that folder
didn't sync to offline use.  That was back in the days when I used
dialup to get to the work network remotely.

Murray McKee 
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-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of Todd Walton
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 8:27 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: [Cialug] Stupid Software; Feature Don't Work!

Microsoft Outlook, using Exchange, will download emails and
appointments and the like for offline use.  You're online... it
downloads.  You're offline... it uses the cache.  I fired up my work
laptop last night and got into my work email using Outlook.  It
successfully started in offline mode, and started to tell me about
past meetings and appointments that had happened weeks ago.  Reminders
I had dismissed weeks ago were coming back, because I hadn't dismissed
them *while in offline mode*.  And then, the email I searched for
could not be found.  I *know* what this email had in it, and I type in
a few keywords that I *know* were in the email, it doesn't find it.
Now that I'm at work I search on the same keywords and they're there.
This email is over a week old, Outlook supposedly syncs the offline
cache continuously.

This is retarded.  These are the little razors that slice my skin when
I come to work every day.  I'm trying to be reasonable, but this just
reaffirms my animus for all things Microsoft.  Can someone please tell
me something stupid that a high profile open source program does?  I
need to know.  It's okay for a program to be not so efficient or to
not have certain features.  But having a feature that doesn't work is
just retarded.  Does Lotus Notes do stuff like this?  Now that I'm
thinking about it, Evolution wasn't the most straightforward of
applications.

Yes, yes.  I could end the pain and get a real job, right?  A job that
doesn't require self-flagellation?  I'm working on it.

-todd
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