I have no connection, yet I must post!

[penk]

So I'm converting over to Outlook2000 at work. Its not my fault, I must have access to group calendaring. I'm going to use Crossover to run Outlook on my Linux box, but for the nonce, I'm running it on my laptop, under WindowsXP.

And ya know, it ain't bad. Really. I've set up mail filtering rules, and they all work, the interface isn't bugging me as much as I had thought it would, and it just plain works. Group calendaring is -reallly- cool...

But, there's still that sour taste... and as Neimon put it, as he so eloquently does:

"It IS kinda like going into a restaurant and you hate the decore
and you smell something bad, but my, aren't these nice chairs..."

Comments

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Outlook's UI and functionality are actually pretty damn good for the most part. I still like mutt better as a general mail wrangler, but nothing beats Outlook's calendar/schedule functionality that I have ever found.

It's just the backend that's scary as hell. Their IMAP code is impossibly buggy, and from a security perspective, it's swiss cheese. If you take the time to lock it down, it can be run with only a little risk of melting your entire computer into a puddle of slag, but that's only based on the holes we know about today...