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Author
19 Nov 2007 12:08 AM
Jeff Gaines
I have just installed the Outlook 2007 trial and managed to import my
contacts (a pain) and set up one of my email accounts.

In previous email clients I have always had the option to start a reply
with 'On date someone said' but I am not getting this in Outlook.

Can somebody tell me what I need to do please?

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Jeff Gaines

Author
19 Nov 2007 12:57 AM
Brian Tillman
Jeff Gaines <whitedragon@newsgroups.nospam> wrote:

> I have just installed the Outlook 2007 trial and managed to import my
> contacts (a pain) and set up one of my email accounts.

Never import from prior versions of Outlook,  There's no need qand you can
damage your mail profile.

> In previous email clients I have always had the option to start a
> reply with 'On date someone said' but I am not getting this in
> Outlook.

You need to have software that will accomplish this, like Outlook-Quotefix.
However, Outlook-Quotefix works only with Plain Text messages and it won't
work with Outlook 2007 as of yet.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
Author
19 Nov 2007 9:45 AM
Jeff Gaines
On 19/11/2007 in message <OD8i$ckKIHA.5***@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl> Brian
Tillman wrote:

>Jeff Gaines <whitedragon@newsgroups.nospam> wrote:
>
>>I have just installed the Outlook 2007 trial and managed to import my
>>contacts (a pain) and set up one of my email accounts.
>
>Never import from prior versions of Outlook,  There's no need qand you can
>damage your mail profile.

I didn't :-)
I exported my addresses from TheBat! in ldif format but then had to import
them into OE before getting them into Outlook, ludicrous that Outlook
doesn't import ldif itself.
If I decide to keep Outlook then I will need to get several hundred emails
into it somehow from a variety of mailing lists. Unfortunately it still
doesn't seem to use the Unix mailbox format which was an accepted standard
long before MSFT came on the (Internet) scene.


>>In previous email clients I have always had the option to start a
>>reply with 'On date someone said' but I am not getting this in
>>Outlook.
>
>You need to have software that will accomplish this, like
>Outlook-Quotefix. However, Outlook-Quotefix works only with Plain Text
>messages and it won't work with Outlook 2007 as of yet.

Oh dear :-(
That may be the final nail in the coffin.

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Jeff Gaines
Author
19 Nov 2007 12:46 PM
Brian Tillman
Jeff Gaines <whitedragon@newsgroups.nospam> wrote:

> If I decide to keep Outlook then I will need to get several hundred
> emails into it somehow from a variety of mailing lists. Unfortunately
> it still doesn't seem to use the Unix mailbox format which was an
> accepted standard long before MSFT came on the (Internet) scene.

The process to move mbox data to Outlook is roughly the same as what you
used for the contacts: use Outlook Express an a intermediary tool.  The
article I'm about to cite is for Mozilla, but if TheBat uses mbox format, it
shoujld apply there as well:
http://sillydog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2062
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
Author
19 Nov 2007 3:56 PM
Jeff Gaines
On 19/11/2007 in message <u9bgzoqKIHA.5***@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl> Brian
Tillman wrote:

>The process to move mbox data to Outlook is roughly the same as what you
>used for the contacts: use Outlook Express an a intermediary tool.  The
>article I'm about to cite is for Mozilla, but if TheBat uses mbox format,
>it shoujld apply there as well:
>http://sillydog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2062

Thanks for that Brian :-)

I am trying Barca 2 now, it's a bit more standard.

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Jeff Gaines

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