Outlook Email import /copy

[faltufox Dubey]

I have been trying 3  gtd systems and email handling (as it is major part of my work) , found following issues. 

1> MLO email copy (drag & drop) works but import seems  buggy   also all parallel system opens email in outlook (when i double click on icon) MLO didn't do it. 

2> Import is failing many time

[BOC]

There is a known disconnect if you drag & drop a task to MLO, then move the email to another folder.  It essentially breaks the link.

I'm not sure about the other experiences you've had.

[Dwight]

I don't use Outlook any more but I had used this a couple of years ago. I never used "import" but I did use drag & drop. It worked well once you understand what it can do and what it cannot.

In any drag and drop it is best to use the outline (all tasks) view to drop them into. Dropping anything into a filtered to-do list will create the task but due to the filter and the sort, the new task will probably not be where you expect it to be, and may not be visible at all. Once you have dropped the email into the outline, it gets created with a link back to the place in Outlook's folders where the email lives. The link is placed in to task note, and if you click it Outlook opens and shows you the email. Two things to look out for: (1) As BOC points out, if you move the email in Outlook away from where it was (to the trash, to the archive, to a different folder, or whatever) the old like will not work any more. This is an issue with Outlook, not MLO. For a cure, if you are the kind of Outlook user who has lots of files and shuffles messages around to various folders, then do that first, and drag it to MLO after it finds its forever home in Outlook. If the email absolutely must be moved after you make it a task, get a new link after you are done moving the email. (2) If you use MLO to edit the task note, the hyperlinks will look blue but they will not be clickable. Get out of edit mode and they will work. I used this a lot and I never experienced any problems with the links as long as I did not create either of the two problems described above

Now that I am using Thunderbird, drag and drop to MLO is not available. Instead I use the Tasks By Email (TBE) function where you forward an email to the cloud sync server, which converts it to a task and adds it to your cloud sync.
-Dwight

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