is there any sort of add-in/modification/etc to make outlook display emails like gmail? as in it groups all emails sent and received into one and just moves them to the top when someone replies. that would be awesome.

2/12/2009 10:48:27 AM

you can hook your outlook account into gmail you know...

2/12/2009 10:51:33 AM

i don't want to do that. we heavily use outlook at work and i need to have it here on my desktop. not to mention our exchange server (security certificate) isn't setup correctly and i can't get it to work right with anything outside of outlook.

anyway, no, i dont want to use gmail. i want to change outlook.

2/12/2009 10:53:37 AM

http://www.google.com/search?q=outlook+group+conversations

2/12/2009 11:01:06 AM

nottt quite. sure it puts them all together but you still can't view more than one email at a time..unless i'm just completely retarded and can't figure it out.

2/12/2009 11:07:38 AM

In addition to using Conversation view, you can create a rule that will copy your sent mail into your inbox every time you send a message and it will be grouped with the Conversation it was sent from. This will make it more like Gmail where you can see your incoming and outgoing messages.

One drawback from copying your sent messages into your inbox is that they will show up in bold as unread messages. You can simply click on them to mark as read, but that's slightly annoying. As a partial work-around for this, you can right click on the column header and go to "Customize View" (i think that's what it's called - i don't have Outlook open at the moment). There you set rules for how Outlooks displays your messages. So you can set up a rule that says something like "if message is from 'me' [your address], don't display as bold". That way, only the new incoming messages will show up as bold. Also, if you want, you can change the rules there to make incoming messages show up as bold and red, so they stand out more. A side-effect of this set-up is that in the folder pane on the left side, your unread sent messages in your Inbox will be counted as "unread" in the count next to Inbox.


^ that's correct. With Conversation view, the conversations are grouped, but you still go through one email at a time. If you just turn on the Preview Pane, though, it's trivial to move from one message to the next

[Edited on February 12, 2009 at 11:11 AM. Reason : .]

2/12/2009 11:09:32 AM

yeah that's not quite it either. i guess i'm just stuck with regular old outlook. i checked forwarding and replying from gmail but we dont have any pop3 stuff set up with our email.

2/12/2009 11:22:23 AM

exchange server?

2/12/2009 11:23:33 AM

yeah, a retarded one

2/12/2009 11:23:57 AM

we do too at my work but since we don't deal with really classified stuff, the IT guy didn't mind setting up a forwarded for me to my own domain which uses hosted gmail

2/12/2009 6:22:03 PM

http://www.easylinkmail.com/ ha

2/16/2009 8:38:25 AM

outlook sucks

i only use it when i have to

2/16/2009 11:01:14 AM

good for you. care

2/16/2009 11:20:14 AM