Outlook Express to Outlook

[Ruth Isaacs]

Hello All

We currently do lots of emailing, using Outlook Express 6, and are very
reliant on it.

It would now be very useful if I could have a rule that says "Print all
emails from ......". As there appears to be no such rule in Outlook Express,
I am contemplating switching to Outlook (we use Office 97, so Outlook 97).

Apart from Calendar, are there any significant differenes that I am going to
notice if I switch? I know that the two products are very different: but
what will I necessarily notice - or need to know (before I start making use
of any extra functionality in Outlook)?

I'm a bit nervous about switching, as we are so reliant on emailing: but the
"Print all emails from ......" rule would be extremely useful to us.

Hope someone can advise.

Many thanks
Leslie Isaacs

 

[Steve Cochran]

I don't know much about outlook, but in OE you should be able to copy the
messages you want to print to a folder and then select them all and right
click and then select print.

steve

 

[Leslie Isaacs]

Steve

Thanks for your reply.

I had thought of doing that, but at certain times of the month we will be
receiving lots of emails (20-30 a day) that we will want to print, and if
this could be done without any intervention at our end it would be better
than having to 'select all and print' manually.

Thanks again
Les

 

[Brian Tillman]

Apart from Calendar, are there any significant differenes that I am
going to notice if I switch? I know that the two products are very
different: but what will I necessarily notice - or need to know
(before I start making use of any extra functionality in Outlook)?

Why not test it yourself? Outlook and Outlook Express both function
independently on the same machine. You can use the calendaring and tasks
management functions of Outlook while still using Outlook Express for mail.
Yuo can also configure Outlook and Outlook Express to BOTH receive the mail
and test the mail functions in Outlook as well. However, there is one thing
to keep in mind about Outlook 97 mail. If your mail account is a POP
account and your outgoing server requires authentication, you will NOT be
able to use Outlook 97 for sending mail, since it doesn't have the ability
to send a username and password to the outgoing SMTP server. You'll need at
least Outlook 2000 for that.

 

[Steve Cochran]

You can save the messages to a directory outside of OE and then have a batch
file that would print them all:

print *.eml

is all you'd need.

You could use DBXtract to extract all the messages and then use that command
(in a batch file) to print them all. www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/ Or just save
them manually outside of OE and do the print that way.

I wouldn't go back to Office 97 if I could avoid it.

steve