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Wednesday, December 1, 2004
You're Kidding, Right?
No I'm not, but I guess I should be a little clearer about my tongue-in-cheek acquiesence to Outlook. It should be obvious I am not a big Microsoft fan, nor did I toss my friendly, flexible, e-mail program lightly. And I am not walking naively into some perceived Outlook nirvana. Over the years I have dabbled with both Outlook and Outlook Express as mail clients for myself and others -- always dumping them in some screaming fit of frustration after an hour or so.No, I have merely succumbed to the lesser of two evils. I have held out against the tide as long as I can. I have searched hi and low for solutions that will sync with my Treo, exchange calendars with my corporate colleagues, let me publish calendar data in a free/busy format. I have given up on finding a suitable alternative, and I am willing (though not pleased) to suffer the consequences of my choice.
So bear with me. Offer support and condolences where you can. Overlook my ignominious rants. Forgive the vitriol and invective I will no doubt spew. I walk into this with my teeth clinched and my eyes wide open. And please, please, please won't someone - anyone - write a complete and effective PIM tool suite to replace (and interoperate with) Outlook.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Outlook Dimmed
Ok, how do I configure different signatures for different accounts in Outlook? I have, like, 12 e-mail addresses across four different domains/servers. It is ludicrous to think I want the same signature on all of them. Is there a way around this?A New Outlook on Life
I've used the same e-mail program for more than five years -- a very flexible, advanced, POP3 client from RIT Labs called TheBat!. It has most any feature an e-mail user can ask for. But it's not a very good IMAP client, and it doesn't integrate with anything.For a PIM I used the default Palm Desktop that came with my various PDAs over the years. It was serviceable, but it was really just an address book and calendar. It worked great on my Treo, but it didn't integrate with TheBat! address book, and it didn't have any way to publish calendars.
Most importantly, after years of kludging my way to co-existance with Microsoft-based corporate colleagues and customers I've grown tired of the half-ass, half-integrated, half-productive solutions I've been able to cobble together with various third-party apps, both commercial and open source.
So today I announce my conversion to Microsoft Outlook. It's a shame, I know. I fought valiantly. I searched high and low for alternative solutions. I tried dozens of combinations of software. But no one, anywhere makes a PIM with the broadbased functionality of Outlook. Microsoft owns the corporate desktop. Their stuff is good. It works. And no one makes a better integrated information manager. Outlook has become a desktop productivity platform, with an unequaled collection of extensions, plug-ins, and add-ons.
So here's to getting a better Outlook. Now begins the joyful task of learning all the intricacies, buying all the needed extensions, and trading my obsolete principled stand for some integrated productivity.
Saturday, November 20, 2004
Out with the Bad
Gregor gives up on retrieving false positives from SpamAssassin.
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i have started to accept the collateral damage that is false positives and delete all emails on the server that spamassassin classifies as spam. here is my procmailrc, ready for use with any Maildir based setup. if you use /var/spool/mail, just remove the DEFAULT line. enjoy, but don't come crying to me if you miss emails... [via Gregor J. Rothfuss]
This is becoming more common. I long ago stopped checking the spam list at my ISP-provided e-mail account. I just assume it's 100% spam and let it all disappear. I'm also getting more lax about checking spam items created by any of my e-mail filter software. Anyone who doesn't already know me but really wants to reach me electronically can come to my blog. I have lots of presence indicators there as well as a spam-free e-mail form.
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