Despite the fact that I really like Outlook, I eventually had to dump 
it.  It didn't take up too much memory, but it ran so horribly slow that 
it just wasn't usable anymore.

The UI was extremely unresponsive.  If I switched mail folders or 
clicked on a different message, I would often wait up to 5 seconds for 
the UI to update.

Message downloading was glacial.  It could download approximately one 
message every five seconds - and this despite the fact that I'm on a 12 
MBit line, and no other programs were running at the time.

I'm aware the Outlook 2007 has had some problems, and I've googled 
everything I can think of to find a solution.  Unfortunately, nothing 
worked.

So, I'm back to Thunderbird.

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...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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Now, do you mean Outlook, or do you mean Outlook Express?

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On 1/29/2009 12:57 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Now, do you mean Outlook, or do you mean Outlook Express?

Oh, definitely Outlook.  I use it at work, and I love the way it's your 
email, calendar, task list, et cetera, all in one program.  Very handy 
and convenient.  But that's the 2003 version, running on XP.  At home, I 
had the 2007 version, running on Vista, and it was one slow puppy.

Besides, Outlook Express was deprecated years ago.  It's since been 
replaced by Windows Mail, which itself has been replaced by Windows Live 
Mail.

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www.pacificwebguy.com

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Chambers wrote:
> On 1/29/2009 12:57 AM, Invisible wrote:
>> Now, do you mean Outlook, or do you mean Outlook Express?
> 
> Oh, definitely Outlook.  I use it at work, and I love the way it's your 
> email, calendar, task list, et cetera, all in one program.  Very handy 
> and convenient.  But that's the 2003 version, running on XP.  At home, I 
> had the 2007 version, running on Vista, and it was one slow puppy.

Yeah, I use Outlook 2003 at work, and it's *very* slow. (But then, our 
Exchange server is on the other side of the planet, with a latency of at 
least 100ms, and a maximum outside bandwidth of 2 Mbit/sec.)

It's not a bad product. A little irritating to configure, and it has 
some silly limitations, but overall it's not bad.

Outlook Expression, OTOH, sucks.

> Besides, Outlook Express was deprecated years ago.

Really? I didn't know that.

> It's since been replaced by Windows Mail,

I didn't know that either.

> which itself has been replaced by Windows Live Mail.

Or that. (Actually, I can't tell how it's any different, but still...)

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Invisible escreveu:
> Chambers wrote:
>> Besides, Outlook Express was deprecated years ago.
> 
> Really? I didn't know that.
> 
>> It's since been replaced by Windows Mail,
> 
> I didn't know that either.
> 
>> which itself has been replaced by Windows Live Mail.
> 
> Or that. (Actually, I can't tell how it's any different, but still...)

haha, it's all webmail today.  I use Thunderbird for newsgroups. 
Tonight, I tried Novell's Evolution, but it for some reason froze after 
downloading all povray.offtopic headers.  Don't know what happenned 
there, but it looks very much an email-geared solution.

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nemesis wrote:

> haha, it's all webmail today.

I don't particularly like webmail.

It's nice that you can access your email when you're not at your usual 
computer. But beyond that, it's way more inconvinient than a real mail 
client.

> I use Thunderbird for newsgroups. 

Likewise. But unfortunately it has several annoying bugs and glitches 
that nobody seems interested in fixing.

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Chambers wrote:
> Besides, Outlook Express was deprecated years ago.  It's since been
> replaced by Windows Mail, which itself has been replaced by Windows Live
> Mail.

Does it do NNTP? Outlook Express is still the best newsreader I have ever
used...

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nemesis wrote:
> haha, it's all webmail today.

*throws up*

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