my beef with outlook

[cycomiko]

i just installed outlook 2003 and i was full of hope that it would be
different compared to the prrvious version and most of all outlook express.
no luck.

i cannot understand why or how outlook express is more handy when it
comes to hotmail accounts.

1. i am on dial-up and when i click send/receive, outlook goes "dead"
for about 30 seconds and then it continues on to send/receive. (my pc is 1.2
Ghz celeron 640 Mb ram, so i dont think there is a problem there)

2. every time i click on a hotmail folder, it synchronizes with the
server. fine . outlook express does this too, but my whole system does not
freeze while it happens.

3. in outlook express there was an option to download only headers for
hotmail mail, and to use the space bar if i wanted to read the full mail.
this was very important, because html based junk mail would not load AND
most importantly attachments would not download unless specifically stated.
with outlook, every time i click the junk mail folder to scan the mail, if
the first mail in line happens to be one of those junk mails with a 144kb
attachment i have to wait for the attachment to be downloaded and for the
mail to be displayed in the preview pane before i can delete everything. i
cannot understand how there is an option in outlook express, but not one in
outlook.....

outlook has a great interface and many useful features, but it seems outlook
express is more useful after all.

 

[Vanguard]

i just installed outlook 2003 and i was full of hope that it
would be different compared to the prrvious version and most of all
outlook express. no luck.

i cannot understand why or how outlook express is more handy when
it comes to hotmail accounts.

1. i am on dial-up and when i click send/receive, outlook goes
"dead" for about 30 seconds and then it continues on to send/receive.
(my pc is 1.2 Ghz celeron 640 Mb ram, so i dont think there is a
problem there)

2. every time i click on a hotmail folder, it synchronizes with
the server. fine . outlook express does this too, but my whole system
does not freeze while it happens.

3. in outlook express there was an option to download only
headers for hotmail mail, and to use the space bar if i wanted to
read the full mail. this was very important, because html based junk
mail would not load AND most importantly attachments would not
download unless specifically stated. with outlook, every time i click
the junk mail folder to scan the mail, if the first mail in line
happens to be one of those junk mails with a 144kb attachment i have
to wait for the attachment to be downloaded and for the mail to be
displayed in the preview pane before i can delete everything. i
cannot understand how there is an option in outlook express, but not
one in outlook.....

outlook has a great interface and many useful features, but it seems
outlook express is more useful after all.

Outlook is part of MS Office which is a product oriented towards
business use. Yes, it can be used for personal tasks but that's not
where the big sales are. Outlook Express is oriented towards personal
use, hence it is free (because the NNTP client market is already flooded
with freebie or cheaply priced software). Hotmail is not a
business-oriented e-mail service. There is almost no support (even if
you pay for an MSN account), Hotmail is unreliable, there is no
notification of planned outages, quotas are too restrictive (even if you
pay for MSN), features are minimal, and many other deficiencies that
make Hotmail rarely used by a corporate business. Outlook and Outlook
Express are not derivatives of each other nor siblings. They are not a
full and "lite" version of each other. They are not in the same product
family. They don't try to keep their feature sets synchronized. They
are separate and distinct products. I'm sure Forte Agent, Eudora,
Mozilla Thunderbird, and other e-mail clients have other useful features
and may be more RFC compliant than Outlook but don't expect Microsoft to
update their product because of those, either. Outlook is geared as an
e-mail client used in an enterprise e-mail system in a corporation.
Outlook Express is a freebie e-mail & NNTP client for personal use.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

It sounds like you just want to get your hotmail. Outlook Express is
specifically intended for mail and news.

Outlook is a PIM with mail functions. Its target audience is not the simple
mail reader, and certainly not Hotmail, as evidenced by how long it took to
get hotmail support into Outlook.

If you have no use for the calendar, tasks, journal, etc., then you should
be using OE. Expecting Outlook to become more OE like is a recipe for
disappointment, as you now know. They are intended for 2 separate and
distinct audiences and should never blend features, as evidenced by the
Hotmail support in Outlook.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer:
cycomiko <[email protected]> asked:
| i just installed outlook 2003 and i was full of hope that it
| would be different compared to the prrvious version and most of all
| outlook express. no luck.
|
| i cannot understand why or how outlook express is more handy when
| it comes to hotmail accounts.
|
| 1. i am on dial-up and when i click send/receive, outlook goes
| "dead" for about 30 seconds and then it continues on to send/receive.
| (my pc is 1.2 Ghz celeron 640 Mb ram, so i dont think there is a
| problem there)
|
| 2. every time i click on a hotmail folder, it synchronizes with
| the server. fine . outlook express does this too, but my whole system
| does not freeze while it happens.
|
| 3. in outlook express there was an option to download only
| headers for hotmail mail, and to use the space bar if i wanted to
| read the full mail. this was very important, because html based junk
| mail would not load AND most importantly attachments would not
| download unless specifically stated. with outlook, every time i click
| the junk mail folder to scan the mail, if the first mail in line
| happens to be one of those junk mails with a 144kb attachment i have
| to wait for the attachment to be downloaded and for the mail to be
| displayed in the preview pane before i can delete everything. i
| cannot understand how there is an option in outlook express, but not
| one in outlook.....
|
| outlook has a great interface and many useful features, but it seems
| outlook express is more useful after all.