[mdlug] Anyone an "expert" with MS Outlook?

[Jeff Hanson]

Thunderbird is not equivalent to Outlook.  It is more an equivalent to
Outlook Express (which was supposed to be killed off 10 years ago).
Evolution is a closer match to Outlook.

A 4GB mailbox is something that should be on an Exchange server but
setting up the Outlook archive function with a separate pst store
would probably improve performance and possibly solve the problem.

On 5/14/10, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at opengroupware.us> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 17:37 -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Robert Adkins II <radkins at impelind.com>
>> wrote:
>> > The boss has been experiencing problems with Outlook in recent weeks.
>> > What happens is that out of the blue, Outlook just stops sending email
>> > through our server. There's no rhyme or reason to it, this just happens.
>> > Except for this, when I have him restart his Outlook, it will work fine
>> > again, until it happens again.
>> > I have found nothing on the MS Support pages discussing this behavior
>> > and I
>> > believe most of it is how he uses the application.
>> > He will open up dozens of emails and leave them on screen for days on
>> > end as
>> > a method of keeping track of what he is up to.
>
> Perhaps you can just show him the feature of how to turn an e-mail
> message into a to-do item?
>
>> > The only thing I can come up with is that there is some memory issue
>> > creeping up in Outlook due to the fact the he never shuts the
>> > application
>> > and the non-standard way in which he uses the application, leaving
>> > multiple
>> > Outlook windows open for days on end.
>
> That seems like a reasonable guess to me.
>
>> > Now, I have been experiencing some issues recently with Outlook myself,
>> > such
>> > as it will suddenly no longer allow me to copy/past attachements out of
>> > emails into other applications, such as explorer to store the file on
>> > the
>> > server. A simple restart of Outlook fixes the problem.
>
> Have you looked int he workstations event log to see if there are any
> application errors being logged?
>
>> > I believe that both issues are related. Both also started happening
>> > shortly
>> > after the release of several MS Windows updates about a month or two
>> > back.
>> Mozilla Seamonkey has an e-mail module and tolerates persistently open
>> windows.
>
> I know it is an extremely unpopular thing to say, but: Seriously?
> Thunderbird (which is all Seamonkey is) is hardly a stellar example of
> an e-mail client.  On Windows I'd choose Outlook over TB anyday.  The
> popularity of Thunderbird is unfathomable; it is slow, not really all
> that featureful - and butt ugly.
>
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