[CS-FSLUG] Outlook addiction (was: Verizon)

[Leon Brooks]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 07:30, Jerry VB wrote:
> My wife is just to Outlook Express dependent to let me convert her
> to anything else.

Try KMail, particularly the one from KDE 3.2 or later which has all of 
the contact stuff to.

I hate to mention it, but Outlook also runs under any recent WINE. 
There's even specific code in there to *not* honour any spawn requests 
from programs called "outlook.exe". (-:

> I tried to get her to use Mozilla Mail once. She threw a fit,

I can understand that. I have one Windows-using customer whose only 
sticking point is Outlook. I tried him on Mozilla Mail 'coz it ran 
under MS-Windows too, and while it's a pretty reasonable email client 
by itself, it lacks a couple of key features that the guy relies on. 
One is a little flag to say that a particular email has been replied 
to. I haven't tried again since.

To get him to try KMail, I'd more or less have to run it under Linux, 
which would be too cumbersome as a dual-boot and too difficult to 
reverse if not.

I note that ThunderBird imports *everything* from Outlook. You might 
want to have a quiet look at that.

Personally, Outlook drives me nuts. There's so much that it simply can't 
do, or does very badly.

Cheers; Leon

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