Sent items listed by sender's name (my name!) not recipient in Outlook for Mac 2011
- by user568458
Outlook 2011 on a Mac (OSX7 Lion), on a (mostly PC) office network using Microsoft Exchange server.
In Outlook 2011, in the network "Sent Items" folder, all emails are listed showing the sender's name (my name), not the recipients' names.
That means every single email is headed with my own name, like this:
My Name 08/09/2012
Some subject line [flag]
My Name 08/09/2012
Re: Another subject line [flag]
My Name 07/09/2012
Re: different subject line [flag]
My Name 07/09/2012
different subject line [flag]
...and so on. There's no clue at all as to who these emails were to, until I open each and every one.
I guess it's reassuring to be told that every email that I sent was sent by me... and if I was ever to forget my own name while browsing my sent emails folder, it'd be super useful... But it's not very helpful for navigating sent emails.
Is this normal for Office for Mac 2011? How can I fix this, so that the list shows the recipients' names instead of endlessly reminding me of my own name?
Things I've found while researching this:
This can also happen in Outlook for Windows. On Windows, it's easily fixed by resetting the field. That method doesn't work on Mac because the fields can't be selected separately.
It seems this can also happen in Apple Mail too, and a lot of people seem stumped by this.
I can't find anything on this specific to Outlook 2011 or Outlook for Mac in general.
A simple guide on how to fix this would be the best answer, but I'd also welcome any knowledgable thoughts from Microsoft Exchange Server people on whether this sounds like an Outlook settings issue which I can fix on my machine, or some issue relating to how the Mac gets data from the server and network. The fact that Apple Mail users have encountered the same issue with no apparent fix makes me think the problem might be in the network rather than the mail client - but that's way beyond my limited knowledge of these things.
I don't know whether the local ("On my computer") Sent Items folder has the same problem, as it's configured so that no emails except drafts are ever stored in these local folders. Drafts saved locally are listed by recipient as expected.
