[dba-Tech] Outlook too Small? (was:The walking dead)

John R Bartow jbartow at winhaven.net
Fri Nov 1 15:11:14 CDT 2013


Uhm, auto-archiving is an _option_.  One that I don't use. I have 6.75 GB in
Outlook, from the last 13 years right now and have no problems. The #1
reason MS is going to online apps is because the revenue will eventually be
higher.

-----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 11:15 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Outlook too Small? (was:The walking dead)

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

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> 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:
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> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-tech-products-that-belon
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