Re: Microsoft Outlook Web Access
- From: "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:03:57 +1200
"Charles Hottel" <chottel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I thought Microsoft hired only 'the best' programmers. You always hear of
the hard questions that they ask job applicants.
OO programming and .NET are supposed to be the cat's meow, just ask Pete
Dashwood.
I take no responsibility for MS (or anybody else's) programming. OO is a
great paradigm that allows systems to be built from components and .NET, in
my experience is a level playing field. I think that's all I've ever
claimed, Charlie.
Please don't vent your frustration and petulance on me; how you deal with
your computer is not my problem.
So what did the best programmers with the best tools produce? Let's see.
The inbox and other directories have a number in parentheses next to them
indicating the number of unread emails. If you delete an email without
reading it, the number is not decremented. If you delete them all it
still is not decremented.
Funny, it is when I do it. I'm running Outlook with Office 2003. NOT Outlook
Express, the full version.
Sometimes when you delete an email it gives a error message (I have seen
two different ones) that idicates it cannot delete the email. After a
while the email disappears, i.e. is deleted an is sent to the Deleted
Items.
Perhaps a background task was blocking access or your CPU was doing other
stuff. Next time, try checking Task Manager.
When you right click on the Deleted Items directory and select delete all,
sometimes it says it can't delete them, but you can select them and delete
them one at a time.
I have never had occasion to delete the deleted items directory entries,
letting Outlook do it automatically at the close of session. I DO delete the
junk mail entries after having a quick look to make sure there are none form
people I want to communicate with (there seldom are...) and I do it by
pressing Ctrl/A to select everything in the directory, and then Delete. It
has never failed to work.
For reasons best not gone into, I receive a lot of emails that I need to
delete. For example I went to lunch with an empty inbox and when I
returned I had 35 emails to delete. I thought I could select a range and
then right click and delete them all with a single click. Silly me. When
I held down the Shift key and clicked on the end of the range, what did
appear to my wondering eyes, but 35 open windows, one for each email. What
progress as I now had to close 35 windows plus delete 35 emails. I would
have preferred seeing eight reindeer with jolly ols Saint Nick.
This is documented behaviour and allows people to open multiple mails
simultaneously. Perhaps you need to take another look at using Outlook, or,
if you don't like that idea, avail yourself of one of the many excellent
third party mail readers which are available. I can recommend Eudora... used
it for years. However, I do like Outlook better.
Conclusion: Bad or sloppy programming easily overcomes good tools. The OO
paradigm is no silver bullet. MS Outlook Web access sucks.
That is certainly one set of possible conclusions.
Pete.
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"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
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