Or just use a different e-mail client. I suppose you could write the author of Outlook and ask if he would fix this behavior in your mail program if you find it annoying... Anybody know how to set X-message-flag on Kmail? Kelly Black KB0GBJ On Monday 04 February 2002 23:05, Dan Churchill wrote: > Well, Bob, I had been thinking about sending you a polite e-mail off list > asking you if there was some specific reason that every message I received > from you on this list had its flag up. I would expect the reason you had > such a high majority of responses from jerks is just because it wasn't a > big deal to most of the affected people to make saying anything a priority. > Thanks to Jacque for being a representative of the more civilized subset of > Outlook users on the list. > > Since I generally use flags to keep track of messages of interest that I > want to save or come back to, it was an annoyance to have to clear the flag > on every one of your messages. Now, I'm afraid, there will be more than > just yours to deal with...hehe. Anyway, keep it or not...makes no > difference to me. The fact that I'm fairly certain that more than just > yours will be sent with the flag set from here on out (Florin's already > stated as much...) led me to look into the Rules Wizard options, where one > of the action choices is "Clear message flag". So, knock yourselves out > guys. > > Fact is, I wouldn't mind moving my desktop to Linux, but I'm too attached > to games like Baldur's Gate, et. al., and for someone with computer > know-how, even most Microsoft products can be set up to behave decently > (e.g. to send plain text e-mails) the majority of the time. Of course, > dual booting is the alternative. Been there, done that, not that fond of > it. I have a secondary box that has Linux, Win98SE, and Win2k installed on > it, and rebooting from one OS to the other is just too cumbersome to be > something I want to have to do on my primary (i.e. most powerful == gaming) > system. > > Thanks, though, for extending my knowledge of the rules wizard...I probably > would have never needed to know that if not for you! :} > > Dan Churchill