a curse on Microsoft Outlook

[oommen at imaginetechnologies.com (Oommen Thomas)]

I wonder why people are using Outlook at all.
Myself seen at least half dozen cases when it crashed and *all* mails
gone (not mine, I always use pine). The damn thing stores *everything* in
a single file and this cant be read outside Outlook. So, if there is a
crash, even if you reinstall, even Bill cant help.

Its true that Outlook has lots of useful features, but isnt there a
question of reliability/stability too?

Also it does have compatibility problems too with other mailers,
especially if you send attachments.

Thank God, unlike in the case of Win or IE, we have ample options to
choose from, in the email client segment. Else M$ would have made Outlook
as the defacto std of email-clients!!

Just my 2c..

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Thanks
Oommen.

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Mark J. Dulcey wrote:

<mark>On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Gordon, Seth wrote:
<mark>
<mark>> By the way, I don't know why my messages to discuss at blu end up in HTML.  I'm
<mark>> writing this message in Outlook (I finally switched to Outlook a couple of
<mark>> weeks ago, after Netscape Messenger hanged with extreme prejudice), and I
<mark>> have "Plain Text" checked off under the "Format" menu.  When I look at my
<mark>> messages to discuss at blu in my "Sent Items" folder, they're in plain text.
<mark>
<mark>Your messages are being sent in both plain text and HTML. Reading that one
<mark>in Pine 4.10 made that obvious; Pine displays that there are two parts,
<mark>and starts by showing the text part. Most HTML user agents will just
<mark>quietly display the HTML part of such a message. Non-MIME-aware user
<mark>agents will show the MIME header, the text part, more MIME header, and
<mark>then the HTML source code.
<mark>
<mark>I don't know how to get Outlook (or Outlook Express, for that matter -
<mark>which are you actually using?) to stop doing that.

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