Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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For many years I have HATED and complained that when you Reply-All to an email sync'ed via Exchange ActiveSync, you get a copy of the message. No email product on the planet behaves this way. Typically when you reply-all to an email, your address is not included in the reply (the mail client filters you out from the to or cc line).
Well, long ago I filed a bug, and it was not fixed. The reasoning was always that when you use Exchange ActiveSync the device does not know your address (which is sort of true, it just knows your logon credentials). Either way it was annoying to get responses to emails that you replied to.
Well, on the Treo 650 using ActiveSync they had a clever solution. They asked you what your email address was . Now there is a cheap solution! It appears that when you install AKU2 for Windows Mobile 5 we finally get parity with the Treo 650! However, I never noticed because the dialog where you input your email address is hopelessly buried in ActiveSync->Menu->Options->E-mail->Settings->Advanced. There you can enter your primary e-mail address (note that it is case sensitive).
Note to the WM folks. Why not ask the user as part of account configuration?
Wohoo! Best bug fix, err, new feature evar!
[via Pocket PC Thoughts]
note: make sure you enter the email address that your mobile device sees on emails in your inbox. For example, my email address comes in two forms, my username at microsoft.com and FirstName.LastName at microsoft.com. I had to enter the latter in ActiveSync.