Hoping a Dev at MS might take note of this message.... because their
official tech support is not exactly
top-notch nowadays.

Problem: Exchange and POP3 Accounts + Cached Exchange Mode is unusable:

- Client-side rules do not run if you start Outlook (in Cached Exchange
Mode) and are not connected to Exchange at the outset. These rules should
work... not all messages are coming in through Exchange! Is this by
design?.... NO, because....

- Interestingly, if you make Outlook always start in the *Classic* Work
Offline mode then the rules do behave as you would expect. But this mode has
huge caveats (such as outgoing POP messages sitting in the Outbox until you
hit
Send/Receieve) and was suppossed to have been rendered obsolete by Cached
Exchange Mode.

- You cannot edit client-side rules unless you're connected to Exchange.
This is just stupid.

- Outlook CONSISTENTLY downloads duplicate messages. It is a HORRID bug.
After a long night, I'll go into my Inbox and have 500 messages waiting....
of which
only 20 or so are unique! I have already troubleshooted this with an MVP and
it is an Outlook BUG and not anything else's fault. i.e. I'm not doing
anything "wrong."

I'd venture to say that my problems are not that uncommon... but most people
will just give up and use other tools (FireFox?)... which I am about to do
as well. Outlook 2003 is practically unusable.in anything but it's most
basic, always-in-the-office don't-do-anything-slightly-uncommon scenerio.

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-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com