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Let me take 1 example: MS Outlook. It really, truly, amazingly, sucks. Badly. It is done to handle few email, few enough that you can remember about them. Good
by kfk 14y ago
Let me take 1 example: MS Outlook. It really, truly, amazingly, sucks. Badly. It is done to handle few email, few enough that you can remember about them. Good luck if you work in a corporate environment and you need to find an email from even only 1 yr ago.
Is this an issue? Yes. Do people care? Not enough apparently. What do you do? You either accept it or you find a solution at a low enough price that people start caring.
Bottom line: look at what people are willing to pay.
- squidsoup 14y agoI think this is a problem with mail clients in general, particularly on large networks. Mail.app and Evolution don't fare much better, in fact I would say Evolution is significantly worse.
- kfk 14y agoBut how difficult would it be to archive email texts in a database (sqlite?) and the attachments directly on the filesystem? Then you backup that and you are set. Instead now you still have to archive (I have a 500 MB limit), but you do in a .pst file that you anyway have to use from Outlook that, again, does not have a good way of finding stuff (have you tried the search box on even only 6 months of emails?) or, even more important, to comment stuff (how many times I wanted to add comments to an email, nobody thought of that?). Edit: Yes, I know what you are thinking: it takes more space! But hey, don't we have super sized hard drives anyway?