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Kevin Atherton
I have Outlook 2003 connecting to an Exchange server (don't know what
flavor; probably the latest or near-latest). I get thousands of messages
(error, status, etc.) each day. At the beginning and end of each day, I use
the search folder "Unread Mail" to mark everything read so I can tell when
it's 'new.'
The problem is, it takes forEVER for even a few hundred. Does anyone here
know what Outlook is doing when you tell it to mark all as read? Is it
loading the entire email (most of them are > 1M in size), changing the flag,
and then resaving it, or is it just a really slow connection to my server or
a slow server? I can picture it being a SQL UPDATE command and can't
imagine it taking that long. It is marking even the ones that are already
read as read AGAIN (in the case where I don't use the "Unread Mail" search
folder)?
While I'm asking questions, on a related topic: When I 'mark all read' for,
say, several thousand messages and the Outlook icon in my system tray has
the "!" icon on it meaning that it's 'communing' with the server, I will
occasionally get sick of waiting and right-click the icon and say "Cancel
server request." But the messages continue to be marked read. Does the
"Mark all read" just start the process and regardless what I do, it
continues doing it until done, disregarding what "cancel server request"
should actually mean?
Just a couple of (hopefully coherent) questions.
flavor; probably the latest or near-latest). I get thousands of messages
(error, status, etc.) each day. At the beginning and end of each day, I use
the search folder "Unread Mail" to mark everything read so I can tell when
it's 'new.'
The problem is, it takes forEVER for even a few hundred. Does anyone here
know what Outlook is doing when you tell it to mark all as read? Is it
loading the entire email (most of them are > 1M in size), changing the flag,
and then resaving it, or is it just a really slow connection to my server or
a slow server? I can picture it being a SQL UPDATE command and can't
imagine it taking that long. It is marking even the ones that are already
read as read AGAIN (in the case where I don't use the "Unread Mail" search
folder)?
While I'm asking questions, on a related topic: When I 'mark all read' for,
say, several thousand messages and the Outlook icon in my system tray has
the "!" icon on it meaning that it's 'communing' with the server, I will
occasionally get sick of waiting and right-click the icon and say "Cancel
server request." But the messages continue to be marked read. Does the
"Mark all read" just start the process and regardless what I do, it
continues doing it until done, disregarding what "cancel server request"
should actually mean?
Just a couple of (hopefully coherent) questions.