Which is why I purchased the Outlook 2007 Programming book.

To import messages into Outlook, what I need to do is set the Outlook Sender field to something other than “me”.

Why?  Well I’m trying to import messages from Lotus Notes, and I want to copy the Lotus Notes “From” field into the Outlook “From” field (aka Sender).

Unfortunately, the Outlook Object Model only has this Sender field as ReadOnly.

Searching around the web hasn’t helped, but looking at the Amazon “Look Inside” view of this book, it looks like there is a couple of other things I can try.

My fallback position is that I could write all the messages out into a Eudora format (mbox), and have the user import the messages into Outlook that way.

It’s been a week since the Palm Pre was released in the USA.

The reviews on the first day were glowing.

By tech journalists.  Who I generally distrust, as they haven’t met a free lunch, or product, they have not liked.
Heck we just need to look at the reviews of the BlackBerry Storm (over-hyped) and HTC Touch Diamond (slow, freezes) , to see glowing reviews of horrible products.

Oh, I understand the pressures of a working journalist.  “Would Sir like the 1962 Grange, or the Kopi Luwak?”

So, we arrive at the Palm Pre.  It’s been a week, what have the average users out there found wrong with the Pre?

• Sluggish at times
• Keyboard too small
• Battery life poor
• Camera does not record video

I think these flaws will be sorted out at the next major Pre software upgrade.  But does the Pre have a future?

Ultimately no.

Apple announced an update to the iPhone last week, the 3GS.  With claimed performance increases of “up to twice the performance of the iPhone 3G”, It’s going to kill off Palm Inc.