a curse on Microsoft Outlook

[wchandle at hotmail.com (Wendell)]

If your email is that important, then you should be doing periodic backups,
as you do with your other important data!

Remember, the real Outlook (not Express) was originally designed as a client
to Exchange email, and has POP capability added only as an afterthought. As
such, it is assumed that the mail admin is current on his backup routines,
and can restore your post office box at any time!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Oommen Thomas" <oommen at imaginetechnologies.com>
To: "Mark J. Dulcey" <mark at buttery.org>
Cc: "Gordon, Seth" <sgordon at kenan.com>; "'discuss at blu.org'"
<discuss at Blu.Org>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: a curse on Microsoft Outlook


>
>
> 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..
>
> -
> 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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