Re: [GD-Windows] Outlook Express crash

[Kent Q. <ken...@co...>]

You're not going to like my answer, but my suggestion is to find
a mail client that follows the standards and that actually works.

Eudora, Pegasus, The Bat, Poco, Netscape are all credible mail
programs; each has advantages. I use The Bat because it has excellent
scripting and filtering, but it's weird in other ways.

I know many people -- including developers -- who use Outlook and/or
Outlook Express, and both programs constantly do things that their
users don't understand. This is just another example. All of the ones
above work fairly well, and more importantly, they're not mysterious.

  Kent

Monday, August 12, 2002, 10:07:28 AM, gamedevlists-windows-admin wrote:

> I have a rather annoying problem since last week.

> In short, I get some mails that make Outlook Express crash *before*
> displaying the mail, and in any case before removing it from the mail
> server.

> Which means that :
> - I run Outlook Express
> - it checks the mails, crashes, exits
> - same story if I run it again (the usual text saying "hey I've crashed so I
> don't display last email just in case" doesn't show up, since basically it
> never even displayed the offending mail once)

> That's annoying because it means, uh, I can't read my mails anymore. I
> currently have to go directly to the mail server to kill the guilty mail.

> The crash looks like that, even if that probably doesn't help:
> http://www.codercorner.com/Msimm.jpg

> I tried changing the encoding and various options in Outlook, with no luck.

> Any idea ? I'm bored to death.

> Pierre

> PS : and of course the crashing mail is some f*****g spam for some business
> crap program, with no apparent way to remove my address from their mailing
> list.




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