I'm about to do the same thing. I'm just fed up with Outlook 2002 and for many of the same reasons. Slow is the worst, but it also has a known bug that was the cause of my duplicate message problem. I can't resolve the problem because MS won't fix the bug, but curiously OE doesn't have the problem. So I just have to get some time to back up all my email and make the switch.
-Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:04 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Outlook is awful > > > This seems to be a day for rants, so here I go. > > <rant> > Relief has arrived. > > Having spent the past two years using Outlook 2002, I finally > gave up on it yesterday when trying to download my email. > Having been off the internet for about 2 weeks, the number of > emails in my box is pretty big, but not outrageously huge > (about 6000). Of course, a huge amount of this is spam > (having had my email address for about 6 years) and another > huge amount is my mailing lists. Outlook has given me so > many problems over the past two years that I've regularly > wiped clean the drive and re-installed everything, > uninstalled and reinstalled Outlook, and disabled my AV, all > in an attempt to keep things speedy and operating smoothly. > But...it still takes minutes to start up when it does start > up. It takes a whole day to download a thousand messages. > It causes my whole machine to crash. It's entirely > unproductive. But yestyerday I finally tried using Outllok > Express and .... Wow. Everything works. My messages come > through quickly and into the right folders. It's like I have > a brand new life in email. I love it. I might even sign up > for more mail lists. :-) I feel like one of those Mac > commercials. My Outlook Express. I love it. </rant> > > Matthew Small > IT Director > Showstopper American Dance Championships > Phone: 843-357-1847 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
