You know, after banging your head against Outlook 2007 for several hours, trying to Google my way to find out about the lack of backgrounds and then finally ending up in here, tired and frustrated, ready to resign… ;)

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for these advices.

Regarding date formats, I wonder if many/most IMAP servers support the unambiguous ISO 8601 date format? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601) To my mind, anyone creating software that has even a remote possibility of having to deal with multiple formats (and I’d say IMAP server software qualifies!) should always support ISO 8601 and use it internally… Sadly, though, to the extent it’s even covered by the RFC (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501.html) — and why do we keep making the mistake of not defining these things?! — it looks like they’ve done exactly the wrong thing and require DD-MM-YYYY (at least, that’s how it looks to me in the Formal Syntax section, but I’m not an expert at ABNF)…

– T.J. :-)