On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:30:27PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
> On 21/05/2001 at 14:15 +0100, Mike Wyer wrote:
> >On Mon, 21 May 2001, Robert Shiels wrote:
>
> >>I use Outlook Express, I like it a lot. It works for me.
> >
> >Much badness. We are withdrawing Outlook and associates from all our
> >Windows machines as soon as we have weaned the secretaries off it. It is
> >an administrative nightmare, and the source of more viri than any other
> >component on our systems (NT and Linux).
> >
> >In a networked environment, it is the Devil incarnate.
> >
> >Standalone, you might be ok. The interface may be nice, but the code has
> >more design flaws and vulnerabilities than a very buggy thing.
>
> Isn't there a lot of difference between Outlook- big, bloaty, part of
> Office, designed for Exchange- and Outlook Express- biggish, bloatish,
> but doesn't talk so many non-standard protocols, and can even do IMAP
> over SSH?
It does IMAP over SSL (afaik), but not over ssh.
-Dom
