Flagged for follow up emails in my reminders?

Question

The new reminders and flagged email system is great BUT I cannot see flagged emails set as reminders in Outlook to appear in my reminders list.  The process is:
- Email is sent out regarding a quote
- Flagged for follow up is created via a rule
- Flagged for follow up email is located in my tasks list in Outlook (Exchange Server)
- Email is flagged in the inbox of my iphone, but the reminder does not appear in my reminders list.
Does anyone have a suggestion for this?  I can get the reminder to show up from Outlook if nothing is attached to the reminder.
This is a gab I would really like to close up, because it will become a pain if I don't.  I essentially want to create list of emailed quotes to follow up on to appear in my reminders on my phone.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Zac

Answer 1

PebbleChamp wrote:
You obviously have never had a job that requires you to be in and out of meetings all day.  I can't tell you how many times my phone has gone off in a meeting b/c I forgot to take it out of my pocket and use the switch when the meeting starts (as the presenter it's even more embarrassing).  Even worse, times I have remembered to flip the switch, I have forgotten to flip it back after the meeting and end up missing calls for hours since sometimes I don't feel it vibrating.
Yes, I do attend a considerable number of meetings on a daily basis, and I, like EVERY ONE ELSE I KNOW, turns the phone to vibrate or slent during the course of meeting. The fact that you seem to struggle with this may well say more about you than the phone design. Being able to control your phone to prevent disruption is a pretty basic business skill.
The problem isn't that Apple didn't facilitate this feature, but that they lock any other apps out of creating this feature do to limited access to the iCloud Calendar.  The only way to get around this is to jailbreak.  I shouldn't have to adapt to taking the phone out of my pocket and flipping the switch before and after every meeting; the point of technology is to make life easier.  If Apple truly wants to continue becoming the corporate platform of choice, then these types of changes are not "a waste of time and overhead."
Yes, third party apps are locked from a considerable amount of interaction with the other apps and Os functions. It is one of the characteristics of the system that makes it relatively safe from malware and other intrusions. A far more important corporate feature than trying to completely dumb proof a phone.
It wasn't my intent to hijack this thread, but it was obviously your intent based on your thoughtless fanboy comment. 
Is your intent to make your self sound ignorant? If so you are succeeding.
Tying back the original post to this same topic, almost every corporate environment relies on Exchange server, so the inability to sync the Outlook flags as reminders in iOS is also a glaring absence.  Has no one found a way to solve this?
I am connecting to Exchange and get my flags with no problem, regardless if they are set on Outlook on the PCor in the iOS mail app. Comms team here  recently polled everyone using Active Sync on mobile devices and found zero instances of issues with this within my company. That's several thousand users globally. Obviously it isn't a universal issue, and very likely has more to do with Exchange deployments than the operating system on the phones and iPads, probably an issue with Active directory, Active Sync or similar Exchange/IIS function. That means Microsoft is going to need to provide some guidance to Exchange server admins to resolve, and past history would indicate that will be very slow in coming.
In the meantime, there are work arounds such as using dedicated action folders; a third party app that allows settings priority, dues date, etc. within it (Boxer does this); One Note; or applying some basic mail management process (which would be a good idea anyway).