Pages Tagged “Outlook”
Reviews
- Microsoft Outlook (Android) ★★★★☆ It works. More stable than the desktop version. Handles mail, calendar and contacts, offers the focused/other inbox view. Tries to keep you in Microsoft’s apps. OK for work, wouldn’t use it for personal mail.
- Microsoft Outlook (Desktop) ★★★☆☆ I won’t say I’ve never liked Outlook, because the macOS version has been pretty decent for a while now (if a bit of a resource hog), but the Windows versions have always been awkward, cluttered, and quirky.
Tech Tips
- Move Email Archives to a New Account Thunderbird, Vivaldi, Apple Mail and Outlook can move messages from one IMAP account to another. Just drag and drop! But Gmail makes it a bit more complicated.
- Outlook Mangling HTML <pre> Tags It’s 2026, and Outlook is still mangling email. It’s collapsing whitespace and line breaks in HTML preformatted text, so you need to fake around it with non-breaking spaces and <br> tags.
Blog Posts
- Outlook Viruses Trash Non-Outlook Mailboxes
Mozilla developer Ben Goodger writes about losing his inbox to the latest virus… despite not using any vulnerable software. Apparently he’s been getting over 10,000 virus-laced messages every day, and with the four-day weekend they built up to the point that Thunderbird wasn’t able to handle the influx. (Imagine having to filter out 770 megabytes […]
- Giving virus writers honest work
By way of Justin Mason and the SpamAssassin mailing list comes this post about writing add-ons for Outlook. Seth Goodman writes of Outlook’s contact list: This feature was apparently added for the convenience of virus writers, who it appears were one of the key groups that set the design requirements for this product Ronald F. […]
- I hate Outlook!
Yet another call of “I can’t retrieve email!” Always from Outlook users. If you use Eudora, Netscape – hell, even Outlook Express, you’ll get some sort of error message if it stops working. You can usually solve it by closing the program and starting it up again. But Outlook… Outlook will get into modes where […]