I might need to create a separate topic for this. So it turns out that changing the default view for reading mail (at least in non-inbox folders) is an option in the View menu. Yes kids, I'm blathering about Outlook again :/

Today's fun job is trying to figure out how to get the Exchange server our IT group uses to not retain mail on the server. I like to just keep mail around - disk space is cheap. There are limits on the server side storage though, which makes sense across a wide user base. So - the simplest thing would be to turn server retention off. That's easy if you use standards like POP3, but it apparently requires stepping through a forst of modal dialogs if you made the mistake of using the MS proprietary Exchange services.

It also seems to be painful if you already created a set of folders - the steps that my IS group is telling me to take just don't seem to exist in the dialogs that I'm getting. MS Outlook - it's teh Sux0r.