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

[Jerry VB]

Thnks for your comments Leon. My wife's main question when I try to get her to
use a Linux email client is: "Can I still use all of my cute stationary?" She is
addicted to html email which all of her "'net" buddies send each other. I think
they all try to out-cute each other, LOL! Her main issue is that she can't look
up some cute stationary on the net, click on 'Install', and have it
automatically installed into her stationary directory. So, I've amost given up
on converting her. But, I have told her that Win2K is the END of the Windows
line for our household. I *WILL NOT* but a copy of XP. So, she knows the end of
the road is coming sooner or later.

What if I try her on Lindows?

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:18:31PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> 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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