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Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Mon Feb 8 11:20:19 GMT 2010


Tero Pesonen wrote:
> 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.

Well, after 2002, Outlook Express beat Eudora Mail in speed and handled 
an imap mailbox with over 50k mails without problems...


> (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.
> 

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