[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

[AEF]

On Nov 12, 4:48 am, John Wallace <johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 7:50 pm, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > On Nov 11, 1:16 pm, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
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> > Koehler) wrote:
> > > In article <ZdednauJXM05uEHRnZ2dnUVZ_o2dn... at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net> writes:
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> > > > Save Outhouse for customers who require it.
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> > >    Why else would I be using it?
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> > It does some nice things Mac Mail doesn't do. You can flag an open
> > email (message) with a keyboard shortcut and it shows up on the email.
> > You don't have to go to the list of email messages (viewer window) and
> > find it in the big list or open the right menu to see if it took, or
> > if it was already flagged! You can have multiple colored flags, and
> > change the color without the mouse! The follow-up flags can easily be
> > set to a future time to come up as a pop-up reminder, using just the
> > keyboard. Different follow-up types (aside from colors) are
> > available.
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> > Outlook tells you right at the top of the email if you've ever
> > forwarded or replied to it. I like that.
>
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> "Outlook tells you right at the top of the email if you've ever
> forwarded or replied to it. I like that."
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> Does it? Really? Have you checked in detail?

Yes, yes, and I have. I don't know what's wrong with yours. I will
post a screenshot on my Web site (Barely started! Only one page
presently!) if I have time and if the software cooperates, i.e.!).

> Outlook versions I'm familiar with have for years had a silliness (aka
> bug) where all the flag actually tells you is whether Outlook ever
> saved a draft of a forward or a reply. The flag doesn't reflect
> whether you actually sent the message; Outlook lies. This applies to
> Outlook 2002 at home under Windows XP with simple POP/SMTP support and
> a very different corporate Outlook at work with the more usual
> Exchange support; same lies on both.

The flag is something you add ***manually*** via Shift+Ctrl+G. You can
choose from Call, Do not forward, Follow up, FYI, Forward, No Response
necessary, Read, Reply, Reply to All, Review. You also have six colors
to choose from for messages in your Inbox. These are simply "notes to
yourself". And they have a checkbox for "completed", which changes the
flag to a check mark. This way you can mark messages for follow-up
action and then mark them as completed when you're finished with them.
You can set a date and time for a pop-up reminder to display on your
screen. They have no other functionality except to tell you what you
told yourself to do with it. This flag goes with the message when you
send it, including the pop-up reminder!

AEF