It appears we may have our own Deep Throat on our hands, as we continue our investigation into the White House email scandal. After we published our second article, we got an interesting email from someone with a very anonymous Gmail account. Having no self-control ourselves, we’ve nicknamed him "Deep Mail". Here are his letters to us.

We continue our technical analysis of the White House missing email controversy. Last week, we learned that the President’s staff uses at least two domains for email: EOP.GOV for official business and GWB43.COM for political business. This week, we explore GWB43.COM for clues into the White House email infrastructure. We’ve come up with some disturbing new questions.

We’ve been covering some of the performance issues regarding Outlook 2007 and summarized a bunch of reports in our recent article "Outlook 2007: a cautionary tale". This week, I received the following letter from Michael Affronti, Microsoft Office Outlook Program Manager with news on an Outlook 2007 performance upgrade you can download immediately.

Over the past few weeks, it’s come to America’s attention that some emails from the White House have gone missing. As the publisher of two of the largest publications dedicated to email and electronic communication, OutlookPower Magazine and DominoPower Magazine, ZATZ is investigating this issue. Our goal is to make clear the technical elements of the discussion. We are strictly publishers of technical information, so we’re going to do our best to completely avoid the political discussion.

This week, we’ve got two questions: one about why send/receive no longer works automatically and another about exporting email dates. The good news is we can answer the first question. The bad news is that we don’t have a good answer for the second question. Such, of course, is life with Outlook.

Last month I told you that I love Outlook 2007, and I do. But I love it a little less now than I did last month, thanks to two issues that have surfaced since then. When either of these two problems hits, they make life with Outlook 2007 more difficult than it needs to be. This month I’ll tell you about these two issues, and describe some fixes that may work for you.

A reader asks, "Is there any way to import an Excel File containing names, email addresses (and phone, fax and address) information directly into Outlook to create individual contact address files?" But, of course. It’s pretty easy, too.

Excellent software is hard to create and big software products are even more of a challenge. So it comes as no surprise that Outlook 2007 is having its growing pains. But what about now? Should you upgrade now? Unfortunately, we’re getting steady reports of degraded performance, not increased performance. This could be a deal-breaker.

There’s been a lot of negative talk about Outlook 2007 recently, with potential upgrade problems and the apparent step backwards in the way it renders HTML among them. I know I’ve had some critical things to say myself. But when all is said and done, Outlook 2007 has a lot going for it. Contributing Editor Bill Mann likes it and he thinks you will too. Here are some of the reasons why.

Even more fun than letters that are quick and concise are those where the answer’s right on the Web page in question. Here’s a question on managing spam with Outlook Express.