Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Nov 1 11:14:31 CDT 2013
Hi Dan: The old desktop version...I have not tried the new web based Outlook yet. The desktop version because of its size limits, is continually pruning off older posts and archiving them. Over the years, I have directories to hundreds of companies for which I had correspondence but Outlook just keeps archiving the directory contents to yet another PST file as the file limit gets surpassed. Trying to find some old mail can be a real pain....I had about twenty archives attached and it was all getting a little kludgey. I put up with it for as long as I could and finally gave up on it. There is so much email these days that desktop Outlook is ready for retirement, it would seem that Microsoft and yourself agrees. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Waters" <df.waters at comcast.net> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, 1 November, 2013 8:05:00 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Outlook too Small? (was:The walking dead) Hi Jim, Do you mean desktop Outlook or Outlook.com? I was just about to set up and Outlook.com account for my W8 phone so that I could synchronize with Outlook on my PC. But what does 'too small' mean? Thanks! Dan -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 9:54 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The walking dead Hi Peter: I have been running Thunderbird for a while and it just works. Most of my mail now goes through GMail and my local ISP's Zimbra (I really like Zimbra...a lot better internet email service than GMail in my opinion). I actually like Outlook but the product is too small for today's volumes of mail messages...two to four GBs just doesn't cut it (and it is too easy to hack) and I am not going to install an Exchange server just to support it. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, 31 October, 2013 5:07:05 PM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The walking dead On 2013-10-31 1:44 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote: > Here is a good start list of programs that are part of the "Walking Dead" and should be tossed as soon as possible. Corporate BS meant to persuade us old is terrible, expensive new is necessary. [Thunderbird choked on my first send, hope this isn't a dupe] PB ----- > > I must admit I still have sites with XP but will be either moving them to Linux or Windows 7, depending on what the client wants. For a more complete list of the toxic brew of the dead and dying, check out the link: > > http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-tech-products-that-belon > g-to-the-walking-dead/?tag=nl.e101&s_cid=e101&ttag=e101&ftag=TRE684d53 > 1 > > Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com