Outlook 2007 - rant

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I thought this is supposed to be the leading email prog used by corporates worldwide. Then why is it so bloody unstable & useless at handling IMAP? :confused:

I've got 5 gmail addresses. Mostly unused but I want to monitor them nonetheless. Gmail isn't exactly a small email provider, so why must I spend 30 mins manually configuring ports number & encryption for each one?

So I did the same thing 5x...and the outcome differs slightly between them.:confused:

I start exploring outlook & to my surprise all of the personal folders are empty. A bit of googling reveals that outlook doesn't integrate IMAP into the local folders. The personal folders section stays empty, can't be removed and is the default starting point. I can't even move it to the bottom of the list.

Close & reopen Outlook...and it has changed the favorites folders that I just finished configuring. WTF

A bit more clicking around and outlook crashes. Great.

So I spotted that it has imported a To-Do list on the right. Except its not really a To-Do but a bunch of random emails that outlook decided must be tasks. (The lolcat pic my sister sent me is apparently a task :wtf:) Fine whatever, I'll just remove them. Then outlook says it can only remove them if it also removes the associated emails. (~100 of them).:sick:

Oh and it just crashed again.:rolleyes:

Using this PoS in a work environment must be a real slit-wrist experience.:sick:
 
Outlook pretty much sucks. Thats why I only use Gmail in my browser (Chrome). It just works beautifully. You could add 4 of your Gmail accounts to the fifth, so you only have to check the one account.
 
Thunderbird

Thats why I just use Thunderbird. With so many plugins I can also view my google calendar, sync my google contacts and lots more!

www.mozilla.com
 
My email at work is converting from GroupWise to Outlook next weekend and the word from those already converted ain't good at all.

So many complaints. My biggest concern is the conversion of my archives. If I lose that I will be hugely upset, as their are years and years of work in their.

It's all backed up on the servers/network, but I cannot overcome my apprehension.

I have been using Outlook at home for about 3 years now and I found it adequate for my needs. I might feel differently about it this time on Monday, 07 June.
 
McT said:
My email at work is converting from GroupWise to Outlook next weekend and the word from those already converted ain't good at all.

So many complaints. My biggest concern is the conversion of my archives. If I lose that I will be hugely upset, as their are years and years of work in their.

It's all backed up on the servers/network, but I cannot overcome my apprehension.

I have been using Outlook at home for about 3 years now and I found it adequate for my needs. I might feel differently about it this time on Monday, 07 June.
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I suspect that the experience will be much better if you go POP instead of IMAP and use a single account.
 
Outlook 2007 in a network with Exchange 2007 is the bomb. Autodetects and configures everything, it works like a champ. I've never seen it crash at our place, and we have some big email users. I have to admit, I don't know about the flaky IMAP support though, I only use POP3 at home with Outlook.
 
heh, welcome to the wonderful world of Microsoft.

I prefer using gmail with thunderbird as gmail in a web browser sucks up too much bandwidth.

Exchange is a good design, but I hate it when people don't autoarchive their stuff. Gotta impose some real strict mailbox size limits.
 
Mmm. Odd. I've never had an Outlook crash in 15 years of heavy use. Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Tasks. Syncs with the HD2.

PST is currently 826MB. Once every few months I do run a SCANPST to tidy it up.
 
Ive seen hundreds of crashed outlooks for dozens of different reasons. Chrome is fine for me.
 
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