Customers will still buy Outlook, so why spend the money?įixing Rules doesn’t fit with Redmond current marketing jargon – unless it’s related to ‘cloud’ ‘collaboration’ or best of all, ‘AI’ then Microsoft isn’t interested. Microsoft hasn’t bothered to fix Rules and updating them to Exchange Server because it’s not worth the development costs. Rules don’t need to be modal, it’s just a hangover from early Outlook’s where everything was modal. And you can’t break in the middle of editing rules to do other Outlook work. That makes it hard to check email details while editing a rule to work with some emails. Select Options from the left sidebar to access the Outlook settings menu. Type the following command into Run and press Enter. You can’t switch to another part of Outlook while you’ve got the Rules configuration dialog open. Press the Windows + R keys at the same time to open Run. Some methods usually followed are: Disable. Though there are different reasons behind the slow opening of attachments, many of them can be solved from the user end itself. But sometimes email attachments take too much time to open. That’s nerd speak for the windows being locked. Attachments are vital to Outlook email communication as this facility helps users to share documents among them. You can’t do anything else in Outlook/Win until the update is done.įor reasons passing understanding, the entire Rules part of Outlook is Modal.

The update time would be OK if it happened in the background, but it doesn’t. If you’ve got more rules and a slower Internet connection it can take a long time. But it takes an unreasonably long time, even when there’s only a few rules being updated across a fast internet connection. When you update your Outlook rules with Exchange Server, why does it take so damn long and you have to wait?Įach time you change your email processing rules, Outlook for Windows/Mac has to update the server.

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