According to
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/as...276781033.aspx, there is a
wonderful "feature" called the "sniffer" which automatically adds meeting
requests to my calendar when they get in my inbox.

Is there no way to turn it off? What if I don't *want* meeting requests to
be automatically added. There isn't a way for me to tell Outlook that I'm
not so stupid that I need a "fail-safe to keep you from missing the meeting
in case you don't see the request in your Inbox."?

Please advise!

I failed to mention in my previous post - this is Outlook 2003.

-Nathan

"Nathan Toone" wrote:

According to
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/as...276781033.aspx, there is a
wonderful "feature" called the "sniffer" which automatically adds meeting
requests to my calendar when they get in my inbox.

Is there no way to turn it off? What if I don't *want* meeting requests to
be automatically added. There isn't a way for me to tell Outlook that I'm
not so stupid that I need a "fail-safe to keep you from missing the meeting
in case you don't see the request in your Inbox."?

Please advise!

And one other piece of information - the meetings are not getting "accepted"
automatically - I have the check box for that turned off, and the "accept"
message doesn't get sent - it's just getting added to my personal calendar
(which I don't want it to do unless I explicitly accept the meeting)

-Nathan

"Nathan Toone" wrote:

I failed to mention in my previous post - this is Outlook 2003.

-Nathan

"Nathan Toone" wrote:

According to
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/as...276781033.aspx, there is a
wonderful "feature" called the "sniffer" which automatically adds meeting
requests to my calendar when they get in my inbox.

Is there no way to turn it off? What if I don't *want* meeting requests to
be automatically added. There isn't a way for me to tell Outlook that I'm
not so stupid that I need a "fail-safe to keep you from missing the meeting
in case you don't see the request in your Inbox."?

Please advise!

Are they being accepted or just added as tentative? You can't stop them from
being added as tentative - this way you (and others) know if someone is
requesting your presence in that same period before they book another
appointment.

--
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Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/

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"Nathan Toone" wrote in message
...
And one other piece of information - the meetings are not getting
"accepted"
automatically - I have the check box for that turned off, and the "accept"
message doesn't get sent - it's just getting added to my personal calendar
(which I don't want it to do unless I explicitly accept the meeting)

-Nathan

"Nathan Toone" wrote:

I failed to mention in my previous post - this is Outlook 2003.

-Nathan

"Nathan Toone" wrote:

According to
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/as...276781033.aspx, there
is a
wonderful "feature" called the "sniffer" which automatically adds
meeting
requests to my calendar when they get in my inbox.

Is there no way to turn it off? What if I don't *want* meeting
requests to
be automatically added. There isn't a way for me to tell Outlook that
I'm
not so stupid that I need a "fail-safe to keep you from missing the
meeting
in case you don't see the request in your Inbox."?

Please advise!

They are just being added as tentative...and I find it hard to believe that
there isn't a way to turn it off. That's ridiculous.

I have a personal email account which I check using an IMAP server
periodically, and I do not want my personal appointments being added to my
calendar - even as "tentative"...

Who is Outlook to decide what *I* want to put on my *OWN* calendar? I guess
I'll just have to use Thunderbird to check my personal account...too bad that
a commercial product - which I paid good money for - can't do something as
simple as allowing me to check multiple accounts without messing everything
up.

This, by the way, is new in Outlook 2003 - I didn't have this bug in Outlook
XP. Thank you very much for the information though.

-Nathan

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

Are they being accepted or just added as tentative? You can't stop them from
being added as tentative - this way you (and others) know if someone is
requesting your presence in that same period before they book another
appointment.

--
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Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/

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"Nathan Toone" wrote in message
...
And one other piece of information - the meetings are not getting
"accepted"
automatically - I have the check box for that turned off, and the "accept"
message doesn't get sent - it's just getting added to my personal calendar
(which I don't want it to do unless I explicitly accept the meeting)

-Nathan

"Nathan Toone" wrote:

I failed to mention in my previous post - this is Outlook 2003.

-Nathan

"Nathan Toone" wrote:

According to
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/as...276781033.aspx, there
is a
wonderful "feature" called the "sniffer" which automatically adds
meeting
requests to my calendar when they get in my inbox.

Is there no way to turn it off? What if I don't *want* meeting
requests to
be automatically added. There isn't a way for me to tell Outlook that
I'm
not so stupid that I need a "fail-safe to keep you from missing the
meeting
in case you don't see the request in your Inbox."?

Please advise!

http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Nathan Toone asked:

| They are just being added as tentative...and I find it hard to
| believe that there isn't a way to turn it off. That's ridiculous.
|
| I have a personal email account which I check using an IMAP server
| periodically, and I do not want my personal appointments being added
| to my calendar - even as "tentative"...
|
| Who is Outlook to decide what *I* want to put on my *OWN* calendar?
| I guess I'll just have to use Thunderbird to check my personal
| account...too bad that a commercial product - which I paid good money
| for - can't do something as simple as allowing me to check multiple
| accounts without messing everything up.
|
| This, by the way, is new in Outlook 2003 - I didn't have this bug in
| Outlook XP. Thank you very much for the information though.
|
| -Nathan
|
| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|
|| Are they being accepted or just added as tentative? You can't stop
|| them from being added as tentative - this way you (and others) know
|| if someone is requesting your presence in that same period before
|| they book another appointment.
||
|| --
|| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|| Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
||
|| Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
|| Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
|| Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
||
||
||
|| "Nathan Toone" wrote in
|| message ...
||| And one other piece of information - the meetings are not getting
||| "accepted"
||| automatically - I have the check box for that turned off, and the
||| "accept" message doesn't get sent - it's just getting added to my
||| personal calendar (which I don't want it to do unless I explicitly
||| accept the meeting)
|||
||| -Nathan
|||
||| "Nathan Toone" wrote:
|||
|||| I failed to mention in my previous post - this is Outlook 2003.
||||
|||| -Nathan
||||
|||| "Nathan Toone" wrote:
||||
||||| According to
||||| http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/as...276781033.aspx,
||||| there is a
||||| wonderful "feature" called the "sniffer" which automatically adds
||||| meeting
||||| requests to my calendar when they get in my inbox.
|||||
||||| Is there no way to turn it off? What if I don't *want* meeting
||||| requests to
||||| be automatically added. There isn't a way for me to tell Outlook
||||| that I'm
||||| not so stupid that I need a "fail-safe to keep you from missing
||||| the meeting
||||| in case you don't see the request in your Inbox."?
|||||
||||| Please advise!

I thought that turning off the "Process..." settings in Tools | Options | E-mail Options | Tracking Options disabled the sniffer.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message ...
Are they being accepted or just added as tentative? You can't stop them from
being added as tentative - this way you (and others) know if someone is
requesting your presence in that same period before they book another
appointment.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/

Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
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"Nathan Toone" wrote in message
...
And one other piece of information - the meetings are not getting
"accepted"
automatically - I have the check box for that turned off, and the "accept"
message doesn't get sent - it's just getting added to my personal calendar
(which I don't want it to do unless I explicitly accept the meeting)

-Nathan

"Nathan Toone" wrote:

I failed to mention in my previous post - this is Outlook 2003.

-Nathan

"Nathan Toone" wrote:

According to
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/as...276781033.aspx, there
is a
wonderful "feature" called the "sniffer" which automatically adds
meeting
requests to my calendar when they get in my inbox.

Is there no way to turn it off? What if I don't *want* meeting
requests to
be automatically added. There isn't a way for me to tell Outlook that
I'm
not so stupid that I need a "fail-safe to keep you from missing the
meeting
in case you don't see the request in your Inbox."?

Please advise!