I changed the title because I have another question. If this isn't the
same as starting a new thread, is there an effective way other than
going to the Yahoo Group site?
Now the question: I'm one of those who merely rebels at Microsoft owning
my computer. On the other hand, I use MS Office 2003. On the other other
hand, I also use Thunderbird and Firefox. I use IE7 at work and I hate
it, maybe because I'm not used to it, but there it is.
But I've had more empirical reasons for not using Outlook, having to
do with the way it handled contacts, didn't allow for scheduled outgoing
emails (I know T-bird doesn't either, but when I was trying Outlook I
was running Eudora).
So -- and this is a serious question: why would I, a guy who handles
three POP accounts on the Treo, want to switch from the Palm Desktop to
Outlook/Exchange combo? What might be some of the advantages.
Short of loading the latest MS software from disk, I'm thinking this
is a good way to find out. (Please tell me some of the DB6 functionality
not available in Palm Desktop is available in Outlook -- that could be a
big seller.)
Don Ferguson wrote:
> Hmmmmmmmmm. Well, I'm pretty sure that's all flat wrong (and yes, off
> topic, sorry!!) since I've been exchanging (pun intended) thousands of
> emails with attachments with all sorts of internet mail users for months
> with no problems. I will ask the question of my Exchange provider, but
> again since Outlook has always worked fine for sending emails with
> attachments to people both through Yahoo Groups and directly for months,
> and since Outlook hasn't changed and since only people receiving my
> emails with attachments through Yahoo groups are having the problem, I'd
> say it's 95+% odds that it's a problem in Yahoo groups and 5-% chance
> that it's something in Exchange.
>
> Don't be too quick to judge the Outlook/Exchange pair, especially in the
> Palm Treo world. It's here to stay, it works VERY well, and it's why I
> can get my email, calendar and contacts on my 700p, usually before
> Outlook gets them, at no additional cost and with no central Canadian
> server farm getting in my way (take THAT! Blackberry users!!). I know
> there's a lot of anti-Microsoft sentiment out there, but most of it's
> misplaced. Their products provide significant function and in my
> experience are very reliable -- far more reliable than Yahoo groups has
> been as of late.
>
> Cheers,
> Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> John Tserkezis
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 7:26 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Treo] Dup emails
>
> Don Ferguson wrote:
>
>
>> Hmmmmmmmm. I'm open to suggestions, but I've been using the same
>> Outlook configuration (set up for Exchange) for the past few months,
>>
> and
>
>> it's only this past week that emails sent to Yahoo Groups have had
>>
> this
>
>> problem. Also, it's only recipients of emails from me who received
>>
> them
>
>> through the Yahoo group that have had trouble. The same attachments
>> sent directly to some of the same people (as a test) have been fine.
>>
> I
>
>> suppose Exchange might have changed -- I don't know what I can do
>>
> about
>
>> that -- and I'm open to suggestions!!!
>>
>
> This is getting off-topic, I don't, never have, (and from the looks of
>
> things, never will) use Outlook (any flavour), nor exchange.
>
> That said, as I understand it, outlook/exchange bundles fonts, sizes
> and
> such relating to your message, along with any attachments into one
> winmail.dat
> file attachment.
>
> The outlook/exchange client at the other end unbundles that and makes
> the
> message look pretty along with all the contained attachments.
>
> It is purely a microsoft proprietary thing, and only works with
> outlook/exchange as far as I'm aware.
>
> Mis-configured clients (again, as I understand it, be it outlook OR
> exchange
> OR both) are configured to send to other outlook/exchange clients that
> can
> handle it.
> The winmail.dat attachement is never _intended_ to get into the
> outside
> world (non-microsoft exchange type clients) of course, but through
> mis-configuration, it occasionally does.
>
> So, if you're going through exchange to get to the outside world, it's
>
> likely the exchange configuration that is the culprit.
>
>
--
/The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless -- to us -- if we
know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us
whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of
chow mein. We grieve only for what we know./
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