a curse on Microsoft Outlook

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Outlook is also the preferred client here. I use Pegasus, and it works fine 
under NT as an IMAP client. 
On 7 Apr 2000, at 9:48, Gordon, Seth wrote:

> > From: Oommen Thomas [ mailto:oommen at imaginetechnologies.com
> <mailto:oommen at imaginetechnologies.com> ] 
> > 
> > I wonder why people are using Outlook at all.... 
> 
> I have considered switching to Emacs-on-NT (ObUnix: Emacs runs on Unix,
> too :-) for my email, but then decided against it, for crass political
> reasons.  Outlook is *the* email client software that my company's IS
> group officially supports, and nobody here uses Emacs-NT to read mail.
> If I misconfigure something in Emacs, and spend a day during a crunch
> period learning how to fix it, it's my fault.  If Outlook goes kablooey
> and I have to call the IS folks, and they spend two days fixing it, it's
> not my fault.
> 
> By the way, several folks have suggested that I fix the problem by going
> to Tools->Options, selecting the "Mail Format" tab, and choosing "Plain
> Text".  It already is set that way.  I've sent email to the person who
> fixed my system the last time Outlook went kablooey, and let them worry
> about it.
> 
> --seth 
> 
> 


Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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