Just another bug rather than a feature, even if done by design. In addition, I cannot attach a file to a reply that is still 'in place' - clicking the attach icon has no effect. Outbox and Drafts, trying to know what got sent and what got stuck.SO DUMB.Īnd today it is still problem in August 2014. Do designers at Microsoft not actually do any work? You'd think they would realize that icon is super-important. This attachments icon thing - that is UNFORGIVEABLE. You'd think there would be an option box to fix it. Once email pushes to my smartphone it's marked as read on my PC and I cannot stop it form marking as read. My perfectly good extended keyboards don't work with windows 7 or 8.

Otherwise they did a darned good job of hiding the selection. 1hr minutes wasted trying to solve that one. Want Outlook to move to the next later email when you delete the current email? Sorry, out of luck it seems. I literally have a list of all the stupid things windows 8 and OL2013 do wrong and am now wasting my time going through tech forums seeing if the misery can be eliminated.ĭon't worry, everyone, Google will put out a nice replacement product and Microsoft will shrivel and go away. this is just one of innumerable horrible 'features'. Unusable, not to mention not being able to select where I want to store my sent items. Personnally, I find missing the attachment icon alone making OL2013 I hate to see an otherwise fine product to go down the drain for such stupid designs. If this annoyance is by design I don't know what MS engineers were smoking when they design the software. Since this does not support paperclip or animations, you are not able to see paper clip icons in sent items folder for IMAP. All messages should use the same Sent Items folder, regardless of how you started the message. Outlook 2013 gets the Sent Items folder from the XLIST command and falls back to the local Sent Items folder if the IMAP server does not support XLIST. If you want to use a different folder, you need to rules to move the sent item. If the server does not use XLIST, Outlook 2013 uses the local If the server supports XLIST, it responds with the folder that should be used for Sent items. When you set up the account, Outlook 'talks' to the IMAP server, 'asking' what the server supports. Users can no longer select a sent folder to use.

Outlook 2013 gets the Sent Items folder from the server using the XLIST command and falls back to the local Sent Items folder if the IMAP server does not support XLIST.

Gmail attachment settings missing