Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:47:19 -0500 From: Kevin Lyons <kevin_lyons@ofdeng.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows Message-ID: <41810677.1060609@ofdeng.com> In-Reply-To: <38227116-2874-11D9-8CF2-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> References: <017b01c4bb78$28263a00$4df24243@tsgincorporated.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEIMEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <20041027155704.GA861@procyon.nekulturny.org> <417FCBDF.4040102@ofdeng.com> <38227116-2874-11D9-8CF2-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net>
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David Kelly wrote: > > Google turned out to be a better help system than Microsoft. Of course > the examples I found did not look like my version of Outlook. Learned > Outlook behaves differently if it has an Exchange Server to talk to, > which mine did not. Oh yes. Very differently. Outhouse was made to sell Exchange. When using Outhouse with an RFC compliant IMAP server you will find all kinds of intentional mess-ups in Outlook. For instance, -Outlook will create a new mailserver imap store but will not create a sent items folder in it. IF you create it manually, there is no easy way to tell it to move sent items from the "local profiles" folder to the imap sent items store. There is a microsoft knowledge base on how to write a ruleset to do it; but guess what, it doesn't work on all systems. According to microsoft, service pack 2 must be installed but again guess what, even on some systems with sp2, the rule still doesnt work. oh well, clean install time. Even netscape will allow you to simply select a sent items folder for your imap store. -It is almost impossible to get outlook to stop sending attachments in their propreity .dat format. Even in forced plain text mode which the knowledgebase says will force mime, the thing still sends in .dat. -Ironically Outlook Express can't read .dat attachments, nor can many mail readers. So in a typical situation, you send email at work then try from home to read a sent item with an attachment and guess what, the attachment doesnt show up. Ironically, Outlook Express does handle sent mail properly. Outlook Express is more standards compliant that Outlook proper. Pathetic. Bottom line is that Outlook is intentionally crippled by microsoft to work with IMAP, which is a serious competitor (superior scalability for sure) to Exchange. And they wonder why they are hated and despised.
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