Windows Mail

[Roy Smith]

There was nothing wrong with OE. They could have just left it alone,
and we would have had better choices.

Oh but there are things that are wrong with OE. For example:

Outlook Express does not correctly handle MIME, and will not display the
body of signed messages inline. Users get a blank e-mail and two
attachments (one of the message text and one of the signature) and
therefore need to open an attachment to see the e-mail. If the email has
been forwarded several times, users need to open attached email messages
one inside the other multiple times till they reach the parent e-mail
message. This bug has still not been rectified. The proper behavior is
described in RFC1847.

This defect was carried forward to Windows Mail, and is still present in
Windows Live Mail. Also canceling sending an email while it is being
sent does not effectively prevent it from being sent. Also, when
importing .PST files, cancelling the import while it is in progress
merely cancels the import of the current folder and the import resumes
with the next folder.

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Roy Smith
Windows 7

Timestamp: Friday, January 08, 2010 6:10:51 PM

 

[Stewart]

So I bet you didn't TRY anything else - you just blindly went with
whatever MS decided to give you - just like most people blindly use
IE and don't try any other browser...

Quite the contrary...I have tried a few others, and OE worked best for
me. I also use Chrome and Firefox, IE only if I have to.

 

[Stewart]

I don't see it as "blindly using" or being "dictated to" when an OS
contains certain accessories. The people (like you and I and many
others) who WANT to try other things, or feel the urge to
experiment, or are always looking for a better and easier way to do
something will always continue on the way we are- try it, don't like
it, discard it; try it, like it, keep it; try it, like it, maybe
discard first "like it". I can't count how many mail clients, news
clients, mail and news clients, and browsers I've tried over the
decades. But I generally (but not always) end up using a MS product
mostly because I like the feel of it and it plays nicely with my OS.
Windows started bundling email clients and browsers with their OS's
because of ease of use and the attractiveness of having all that
together in one package (kind of like the Office suites). The
average Joe ate it up and bought it up, so they continued. Toward
the later days of XP and into Vista, there were so many other tried
and true choices, I think they just decided not waste the valuable
resources of programming and implementation by including it in
Windows 7.

I would have to disagree to some of that, as they did take the
resources for the WLM interface and offer it for free DL and
integrates into their hotmail service (which competes with Google).

 

[Stewart]

Oh but there are things that are wrong with OE. For example:

Outlook Express does not correctly handle MIME, and will not display
the
body of signed messages inline. Users get a blank e-mail and two
attachments (one of the message text and one of the signature) and
therefore need to open an attachment to see the e-mail. If the email
has
been forwarded several times, users need to open attached email
messages
one inside the other multiple times till they reach the parent
e-mail
message. This bug has still not been rectified. The proper behavior
is
described in RFC1847.

This defect was carried forward to Windows Mail, and is still
present in
Windows Live Mail. Also canceling sending an email while it is
being
sent does not effectively prevent it from being sent. Also, when
importing .PST files, cancelling the import while it is in progress
merely cancels the import of the current folder and the import
resumes
with the next folder.

--

Roy Smith
Windows 7

Timestamp: Friday, January 08, 2010 6:10:51 PM

Let me rephrase....there was nothing wrong with OE for me.

Of course, I'm sure that some people were affected by these issues,
but since they carried it forward they have done no better when they
had the opportunity.