[vox-tech] Outlook Question (I know, but please bear with me...)
MB
vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 03 Sep 2003 09:17:03 -0700
At least ditch that Outlook virus. Use any free mail client such as
mozilla...
Mark
Richard Crawford wrote:
>I have a RH8.0 server running at home which pulls mail in from our remote
>mail server and then distributes it for me and my wife between our various
>accounts. Now, in addition to my desktop computer which runs Linux, I
>also have my WinXP laptop which runs Outlook 2000 (currently this computer
>runs that because I cannot make my Palm Tungsten talk happily to my
>desktop computer, and because I have not been able to make Debian run well
>on that laptop -- still soliciting suggestions on both those issues, by
>the way).
>
>While at work, I check my personal e-mail by logging in to my server and
>using SquirrelMail. But recently I've discovered that even when I shut
>down Outlook on my XP laptop, there are still Outlook processes running,
>even if I kill them with Task Manager. As a result, when I log in to SM,
>messages are marked as read even when I haven't read them though SM
>(because Outlook on my laptop has checked my mail -- even when I don't
>want it to).
>
>This is just one more reason why I hate MS in general and Outlook in
>particular. I'd love to find a way to run Ximian Evolution on my Windows
>laptop, but until then is anyone aware of a way to kill Outlook processes
>on my Windows computer once and for all so that it actually shuts all the
>way down when I tell it to? Just assume that I have processes running on
>my laptop which makes it inconvenient to shut it down all the way. ;-)
>
>
>Sliante,
>Richard S. Crawford
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