There's a small feature called "flagging messages" which I think was built to do exactly what you are trying to do. Instead of keeping messages open you should try putting that little red or green flag on them - and voila, the messages will stay flagged even when Outlook crashes or you close it - ready for you to keep working on them whenever you relaunch Outlook.

I know all about flagging. I used to color code emails with different colored flags and everything. But I found that too is extra effort. Using flags is just as tedious as marking something as Unread. By the way, you can open an email, and go to the email folder and still mark it as Unread even though the email is open. All Flagging does is givng you nice little colors. In theory you can prioritize by colored flags, but all my emails need to be addressed at some point so assigning colored priorities just doesn't work for me.

I already mark emails as unread if I need to do something with it. But if it's open and I crash, and I haven't yet "flagged" it by marking it unread, I'm screwed.

The more automated my email program is, the better. The more productive we'll all be. So I'm still rooting for Outlook to remember open emails when you exit Outlook expectedly/unexpectedly.

Even if I don't crash and I just installed a billion Microsoft patches, I might want to reboot and have all my open emails return to where they were when I rebooted.

I got a lot of crash on close from Outlook - then I tried removing Yahoo! Desktop - and it is back to working OK - maybe it's YD that 'sucks'?

I think the topic should be "folders suck all of the time". I gave up on them too when I finally developed a system to live without them. 10000 msg's?? Bravo. I'm only at 6000, but still have no trouble finding something with this system.

http://cnxn.ca/NoFoldersTutorial.html

Feedback?? support@cnxn.ca

Mark

I have a problem with the flags, if I am composing a email and I hit the flag to remedmen later, the rcipient recieived the same flag on thier end, which in turn screws up thier flagging system, has anyone figured out a way to fix this. I also created a custom toolbar with the flags but I cant add custom toolbars to an outgoing message. Any advise??

Thanks,
Robin

Help. I am getting garbs of Chinese mail and I have to block each one individually. If I could block the domain name (not the country), I could get rid of a lot of them with one block effort. ,,example... gfds5g45ds6@mail2world.com or gds54gdsa65@mail2world.com The addresses are letters of the alphabet but the contents are Chinese characters.
Thanks, Nnacy

Had the same problem, but it's not $200 it's only $10.

http://brigsoft.com/outlook-spam-filter/#Adds

To quote the page "Adds for Outlook allows prevent Outlook from exiting. Instead it hides Outlook and sets an Outlook icon into the systray. So Outlook is always at hand and no alarm messages will be lost."

We're trying it out now to see how it goes.

Yes. It does do what it says on the tin.
It prevents Outlook from being accidently closed and therefore losing the emails (Which was the problem our client was having) so it did what we wanted.

But it doesn't "remember" them in the same way you want which is a Firefox-like "session restore" feature.

Good luck with your search.

I am having trouble importing contacts-distribution lists.

Please help.

Thanks,

Jack

Well, for the problem of session restore might help the Drafts folder.. doesnt it automatically save the emails that have been opened and not yet sent? Well, ok, it doesnt open all the windows in the same order but you can easily find emails you were working on.

>>Well, for the problem of session restore might help the Drafts folder..
doesnt it automatically save the emails that have been opened and not yet sent?

I'm not talking about emails I've started to "draft". I'm talking about emails I've opened but haven't clicked Reply yet. Some of them I've read and plan on replying to, but just haven't gotten around to it. Others are emails with some interesting information I want to take some action on.

Once Outlook crashes, all of these open emails close and then don't re-open when you relaunch Outlook.

I get over 100 emails per day, and my Inbox is over 16,000 emails long. I have to keep them since they're for business and involve long-standing business relationships. Thus, opened (read emails) can very quickly scroll off the screen in a single day. Unless I go back and scan the subject lines for previous day(s) after an Outlook crash, I may forget to follow up on something.

OUTLOOK SUCKS is an understatement . I have 2007 version with "connector" to hotmail.
Outlook arbitrarily inserts emails into my "TO DO LIST" ?? !! It duplicates calendar appointments?? !!!
I've had Outlook change my appt. times when I added a laptop ?
People have sent me emails that linger in hotmail, yet never get sent to my Outlook inbox ??? I CAN'T TRUST IT !
How in the world is everyone else in the world using this software without experiencing the reliability problems I have ?
Half my life is now spent scanning, cleaning, defragging, debugging, & rebooting !! How does anyone run a business using Microsoft ?
I need a live in computer tech ( like Murphy Brown's painter )

Wish I had a session restore tool - my sysadmin have just restarted Outlook without asking me first Aaargh!
Normally I have to mark unread or if it's already crashed note down the window titles before I close it down

Hello, I have outlook 2003 and for some unknown reason I cannot manually engage send/receive emails. It does it automatically. Can anyone help me with this? I have gone in and went to options, mail setup and send/receive but nothing happens. Any help appreciated.

Can anyone answer this for me?? I send an outlook calendar booking to a group, no problems, that is until one of the receipients in the USA emails and says "you are being ambigious as the outlook booking shows GMT when the agenda shows BST" he keeps asking me which is it, I keep explaining that its Outlook that shows the GMT status - and not alot I can do about it, unless one bright spark out there knows different. Any suggestions please as my teeth and jaw are currently killing me where I have been grinding them. I feel an expensive trip to the dentist coming on

Thanks