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

[Aaron Kulkis]

Adam Tauno Williams 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.

Used Thunderbird for about a week, went back to Seamonkey.

They are NOT the same thing.