basic

[Tero Pesonen]

On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 09:31 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Monday, February 08, 2010 06:19 AM, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:14:16 +0100
> > Amedee Van Gasse<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>  wrote:
> >
> >> On 07-02-10 17:38, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> >>> Given the context of e(mail clients, I assume it stands for
> >>> "Outlook Express", Microsoft's famous own e-mail client.
> >>
> >> Which isn't distributed any more since Windows Vista, I think.
> >> I thought they switched to their "Live Mail" thing.
> >
> > Well that's quite possible. I switched to Linux 6 months after XP came
> > out, and have not used Windows at work either, so I am basically 8
> > years behind...
> > I did hjear on the radio no later than yesterday, though, like you
> > said, that Windows Seven doesn't come with a local e-mail client, and
> > replaced it with a web based e-mail service.
> >
> 
> I did hear that Outlook Express was going to get canned. Oh well, the 
> fastest imap client in the world was also the most insecure. Too bad.

I remember back in 2001 or thereabout, when I still used Windows
occasionally, I attempted to use Outlook Express (not Outlook, but the
Express version) to sort out a full mail account at the university.
(Windows desktop, no means to SSH anywhere since the Windows SSH client
was broken for some reason.) Once configured, I opened the IMAP account
on OE, which immediately choked on a folder filled-up with
automatically-generated mail from a buggy script (tens of thousands of
messages). I had to find a UNIX workstation and use Pine to open it and
-> select all -> delete -> expunge. Took perhaps three seconds.

Tero Pesonen 

-- 
PGP/GPG Key ID 315FD528