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From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: Outlook 2003 Blind cc Question
things that aren't "exactly" the way that you want them. Some would say
when it comes to MSFT that one had better get use to dealing with
cognitive dissonance but then others will tell you that the circle of life
is all about change so if you can't seem to deal with it then change to
another app. FWIW I've tried many times to get use to the
Due to commercialism and commercial greed, Microsoft develops good things
and then overrides them with bad things.
If Microsoft wanted to be a ISP, why not be a simple one that requires no
software like many are? No, Microsoft had to develop MSN and have software.
You can configure your Windows dialer to dial in to MSN and bypass their
software. This keeps them on my good list of ISP's, unlike AOL etc. who
require you to install their software.
Microsoft could have easily offered POP (Post Office Protocol) email with a
SMTP outgoing mail server and allowed it to be accessed via the web (as an
option to a mail client such as Outlook Express) as other POP/SMTP email
accounts are. No, they could not K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid). If they
had built their Dial-Up ISP simple and offered POP/SMTP email, they could
have converted email systems they bought out (such as Hotmail) to POP/SMTP.
I have used Outlook Express for a decade and have over 3 Gigabytes of .dbx
files in its store folder, including some Roy Lehrer letters (many well
remember Roy here). I have over 1400 email folders. How much do you have to
archive to reach the OE capacity? Why change a good thing that works? Oh,
but Microsoft muddies the email waters of Outlook Express again with
Outlook. Again, they refuse to K.I.S.S.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I do not think mail in your Sent Folder in OE
is mail that has went out and came back. I think email that is in the
process of being sent is cached in RAM and then placed in the Sent Folder
once it clears the SMTP server. If, somehow, it never reached its
destination once sent out by the SMTP server, I feel it would still be in
your OE Sent Folder because it was received by the SMTP server. Again,
correct me if I am wrong here.
For email address groups, I always put a return email address in my address
book outside of the address group. Example: I have my email address behind
the header, Andrews Computer Services Customers at a single listing in my
address book. When I send email to my customers I put this single address in
the TO section, so it will appear that the email was sent to Andrews
Computer Services Customers. This ensures that a copy will come back to me.
I put the heading for the address group in Bcc. This sends the mail to all
who are listed there and they do not receive each other's addresses.
Every time I read of different problems here, I think of the many years of
troublefree email service that Outlook Express has given to me. I think of
the huge 3 Gigabyte email library I have built over the past 10 years. I use
third party software (Outlook Express Back-up) to back up my Outlook
Express. The only reason I need this is to restore my Message Rules.
Otherwise I would simply copy all .dbx and the .wab file to a folder named
Outlook Express on the hard drive I back up my data to. Then I would import
these when needed, the same procedure I use to back up and restore email for
my customers who use Outlook Express.
My question is not about what works with Outlook Express, but what does not
work. So far it have not found what does not work. If I have done without it
for 10 years and not missed it, then I do not need what is not there in
Outlook Express.
Chuck
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