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I view Outlook as the Emacs of e-mail. But the unfortunate part of Outlook in my experience is that between jobs my Outlook configuration is completely non-port

I view Outlook as the Emacs of e-mail. But the unfortunate part of Outlook in my experience is that between jobs my Outlook configuration is completely non-portable by design it appears (I have to reconfigure each time I switched to another company).

to3m 10y ago
Assuming you're an employee, this is a feature. Your old employer probably doesn't want you taking your email with you, and rightly so - and your new employer very likely doesn't want you bringing your old email with you, for exactly the same reason. So... there you go. What's the problem? I suggest embracing this rather than worrying about it.
- tehabe 10y ago
  It is about the configuration of Outlook, not about the email if I understood that correctly.
  - to3m 10y ago
    Right - but why would you care? You get a PC, and it has Outlook, and it's set up to work with their system. Then you leave/they sack you. You get a new job. They give you a different PC. It has Outlook... and it's set up to work with their system. Rinse and repeat.
    - JupiterMoon 10y ago
      You miss the point. By config she means whether to display html mail as html, whether to display images from external sources, her language (for spell checking), her preferred set of fonts etc
      - to3m 10y ago
        OK - but if you've just changed job, the overhead of this will get lost in the noise. And this even assumes that these decisions are rightly to be left up to the employee, and not decided by the company. (E.g., HTML email display and/or displaying remote images may be a security risk, and so it could be banned entirely. It's not unusual to mandate fonts and signature for public-facing correspondence. And so on.)
        tehabe 10y ago
        But there are a lot of things which are extremely annoying in the default settings. For example in localised versions of Outlook, replys don't get "RE" in the subject line but, e.g. in the German version "AW". Also other behaviours which makes using Outlook really painfull. (Which I can't remember because I didn't use for a while now) Yeah, I usualy turn displaying remote images off too. Also, are there really companies who forces a certain font for emails? That is risky since you can't know if the other side supports that font. For signature, there are even legal requirements which information needs to be provided.
        NetStrikeForce 10y ago
        My Outlook deals with AW and RE transparently, to the point where I don't even see any of them when in conversation mode. What's the specific problem you have with it?
        JupiterMoon 10y ago
        Maybe she doesn't want her non outlook using friends to have to wonder what AW means?
        JupiterMoon 10y ago
        On my first day in a new job I want to get through set up as soon as possible so that I can actually start to get stuck into some deliverables. I don't want to spend 30 minutes faffing with my email client.
erk__ 10y ago
The real Emacs of email system is properly Lotus Notes.
- jfb 10y ago
  Or Emacs, for that matter.

to3m 10y ago

Assuming you're an employee, this is a feature. Your old employer probably doesn't want you taking your email with you, and rightly so - and your new employer very likely doesn't want you bringing your old email with you, for exactly the same reason. So... there you go. What's the problem? I suggest embracing this rather than worrying about it.

tehabe 10y ago
It is about the configuration of Outlook, not about the email if I understood that correctly.
- to3m 10y ago
  Right - but why would you care? You get a PC, and it has Outlook, and it's set up to work with their system. Then you leave/they sack you. You get a new job. They give you a different PC. It has Outlook... and it's set up to work with their system. Rinse and repeat.
  - JupiterMoon 10y ago
    You miss the point. By config she means whether to display html mail as html, whether to display images from external sources, her language (for spell checking), her preferred set of fonts etc
    - to3m 10y ago
      OK - but if you've just changed job, the overhead of this will get lost in the noise. And this even assumes that these decisions are rightly to be left up to the employee, and not decided by the company. (E.g., HTML email display and/or displaying remote images may be a security risk, and so it could be banned entirely. It's not unusual to mandate fonts and signature for public-facing correspondence. And so on.)
      - tehabe 10y ago
        But there are a lot of things which are extremely annoying in the default settings. For example in localised versions of Outlook, replys don't get "RE" in the subject line but, e.g. in the German version "AW". Also other behaviours which makes using Outlook really painfull. (Which I can't remember because I didn't use for a while now) Yeah, I usualy turn displaying remote images off too. Also, are there really companies who forces a certain font for emails? That is risky since you can't know if the other side supports that font. For signature, there are even legal requirements which information needs to be provided.
        NetStrikeForce 10y ago
        My Outlook deals with AW and RE transparently, to the point where I don't even see any of them when in conversation mode. What's the specific problem you have with it?
        JupiterMoon 10y ago
        Maybe she doesn't want her non outlook using friends to have to wonder what AW means?
      - JupiterMoon 10y ago
        On my first day in a new job I want to get through set up as soon as possible so that I can actually start to get stuck into some deliverables. I don't want to spend 30 minutes faffing with my email client.

erk__ 10y ago

The real Emacs of email system is properly Lotus Notes.

jfb 10y ago
Or Emacs, for that matter.