Hello all,
1) It was with great relish that I removed Office 2004, installed Office
2008, and built a fresh identity recently - because I read that the problem
with Entourage not automatically accepting invitations and adding them as
'Tentative' to the calendar had been fixed.
My sodding invites still have to be read, and I still have to click one of
the response buttons for anything to appear in the calendar. It's caused me
to miss meetings in the past and nothing I've tried via Database
Verification or Rebuild has helped.
Did I miss an announcement regarding a bug here, or does anybody know if I'm
missing a very simple setting in Preferences, etc? This one thing in
particular drives me insane.
2) Timezones and emails (including invites) - if I email messages from my
Exchange (2003) server and my Leopard (10.5.1) MacBook Pro is in say, EST,
and I then later move back to PST - the blasted emails remain fixed with a
timestamp that reflects when I downloaded them in EST. This is completely
the reverse of how things work in Outlook (from about 2000 onwards if I
recall correctly). One of the most obvious effects is in the conversation
view - older emails appear to be newer, which basically breaks the
conversation view. It's the same in the Inbox list although easier to think
about and deal with.
Frankly, in a corporate office environment people receive lots of email (I
get 300 to 500 a day, depending) and lots of calendar invites and updates (I
get probably 2 dozen a day) and whilst I love my Macbook, I spend more time
managing email than I ever did in Outlook (so much that I'm thinking of
moving back). Am I smoking rope or are others in the same boat?
Thanks,
NickW