On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:13:30 -0400 Michael Orlitzky articulated:
Exchange... the cure is worse than the disease! This isn't looking good -- I guess I'll continue to do what I have been: telling people to switch off of Outlook if they want their mail client to not suck.
First of all, there are no existing RFC's that require any MUA to meet the requirements that you desire. So please, stop your wining and crying. It is embarrassing.
Second, there are avenues available that can make Outlook behave in a fashion that should be acceptable to you. If you choose not to pursue them, then that is you business. I have had to endure hours of tedious nonsense to get a simple sound card to work under a *.nix environment when I could have simply plugged it into a machine running Microsoft Windows and had it working immediately. Your "the cure is worse than the disease" is just self-serving bull-shit.
Outlook + MS Exchange offers features that no other MUA presently comes close to being able to duplicate in an office environment. If these don't fit your needs, then please find an MUA that does. No one is holding a gun to your head. However, your desire to force others to abandon something that works fine for them to simple suit your narrow view of what an MUA should or should not do stinks of fascism. I use Outlook at work and claws-mail at home. Each one fits perfectly into the environment I have chosen to use it in.
By the way, after examining your original post, I cannot find a single thing that the proper use of filtering rules and plugins cannot easily accomplish. Instead of your customers using a different MUA, they should consider changing to a new service provider.
-- Jerry ♔
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