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From: "Gerhard den Hollander"
Reasons why outlook sucks. 1) Replys should FOLLOW the message they are a reply to, not be at the top of the message with the *WHOLE FUCKING MESSAGE* attached at the end. How the messages attach or not all depends on how you set up outlook including whether it starts at the end or beginning.
2) Outlook SUCKS at handling large quantities of email , the rules wizard gets throughly confused if you have more than 500 - 1000 emails per day. (try following KDE, Suse and a bunch of other mailing lists as well as having some automated programs email you the results daily). mailagent can easily handle well over 5000 messages per hour (been there, done that, thanks to a misconfigured mailer) . I have used Outlook for handling up to 800 emails a day and didn't have a problem with it being confused. I use Outlook 2000, 97 sucked. Using a combination of grouping, sorting, and view filtering makes a big difference.
3) outlooks .pst file format is horrible, you can onl;y use outlook to read that file, and the file just grows and grows. 4) Outlook by default sends all attachements in an attachement called winmail.dat which can only be read by outlook. I haven't had any problems with attachments either, when I save mail I save it as text or html not an outlook mail file.
5) Navigating the features is horrible, there is absolutely no logic to the location where settings can be changed. The only benefiot you have from getting used to the winblows API is that you're used to looking everywhere for your settings. I understood the logic behind how Outlook is set up, its designed to work with Office and has a lot of similarities to it, as far as the Outlook specific features that made sense to me too.
6) Macro virusses. I agree with you about the macro virus issue, its a pain to have to keep an eye on that.
7) Utter lack of compatibility between versions (try sharing calendars between OL98 and OL2K whitout an exchange server) I don't have to share my calendar so this is not an issue I can respond to.
I know what Im talking about, I've been using outlook since Outlook 97 (a piece of crap if there ever were one) side by side with elm/mutt.
I've more than once lost all my outlook mail/contacts/calendar entires because outlook decided to ruin my .pst file. I keep that stuff backed up
I am sure most of this is a matter of personal preference, I also think outlook would be much better as a linux program. I always thought eudora was the one that was a hassle. Diane _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com