When do you realize a piece of software is badly written? When it makes you feel stupid. Or like you missed something on the way.
Every day at work I get a minimum of 100 spam e-mails, which are conveniently filtered and stored in my Outlook 2007 Spam folder.
And what does a person usually do when she sees that much of spam? Empty folder.
So, where is it? Shouldn’t it be there?
In short, to delete my spam e-mails I have to manually select all and delete them. How convenient.
Now please tell me I’m missing something somewhere. Which I shouldn’t, since there is an “Empty folder” option already in other folders. But anyway.
EDIT: To add to the madness, all my home PC’s Outlook Junk E-mail folders (phew, how did I say all that?) actually do have the “Empty folder” option. Someone’s toying with my nerves.
7 comments on this post
cosmix #1
17.Apr.07
You’re missing the point. So, since you asked for it, here goes:
“You should not, under any circumstances, include Windows, let alone Outlook, in your daily routine/life. Never, ever!”
How’s that?
Sugar #2
17.Apr.07
Oooops, sorry dear cosmix, I have forgotten about that!
All in all though, Outlook 2007 is very-very memory hungry app. On a 1Gb machine it can’t drag its butt. *sigh*
Giorgos #3
17.Apr.07
That’s a really nice blog! I just found you following some links. Keep posting!
PS. i m not any kind of robot or something.. i just wanted to say it!
Sugar #4
17.Apr.07
Hey there, George.
Of course you’re not a bot… thanks for the kind words!
KCorax #5
17.Apr.07
Outlook doesn’t have a ‘Spam’ folder. The folder ‘???????????’ is actually it. If you right click it you can empty it normally. The process isn’t even configurable, you can’t get outlook to change the place for unwanted mail without heavy configuration.
Are you using IMAP ? If so then the classification is doen by your host and they haven’t marked the SPAM folder as a trash container.
Contact me at msn:kcorax@removethisjunk.gmail.com if you’re having trouble.
For your performance issues go get this. It improves performance drammatically especially multithread locks during lenghty operations.
If you are looking for an outlook replacement try Evolution for windows.Functionally it’s almost equivalent.
George you’re fishing for backtrack links to help your pagerank aren’t you ? It’s best that you put some effort in it by leaving a meaningful comment instead of explicitly asking the owner not to remove it.
cosmix #6
17.Apr.07
I’ll agree it does seem this way, but comment links don’t help PageRank (but might help in the cases of Microsoft’s or Yahoo’s indexes) as WP has been adding ‘nofollow’ as a rel for years. I’m quite certain that anyone whose site is about and includes SEO in its name, knows this.
KCorax #7
17.Apr.07
Cosmix, touché you are well informed.
My WP installation however is aware of a link from Sugar’s blog event though it’s just a comment, same for others. If it’s not PR then it’s technorati rank or sth else.
The guy is a known backlink vampire, just look him up in *any* search engine.
I think he left a simmilar comment on my blog too at some point in time…