Tony Langdon via luv-talk <luv-talk@luv.asn.au> wrote:
Outlook does have some useful features in corporate settings. When I used to use it to post to email lists, I managed to beat it into (mostly) submission, at least for plain text emails.
I am in a work environment that is heavily invested in it. The problem is that if the original message is in HTML, the reply is automatically also in HTML and the configuration option that prefixes each line with a > character doesn't take effect. Is there a straightforward solution to this? Switching the message to plain text after issuing the "reply" command doesn't help.
I loved OE, but now use Thunderbird.
While I liked some features of Outlook, I never liked OE at all. I used to use Eudora, but have switched to Thunderbird, which I like better.
My favourite remains Mutt and I also appreciate the Emacs mail user agents. Outlook is firmly part of the Microsoft tradition: large, complex, monolithic, a bug rate to match the impressive feature list, and crashes too often... but the features are nice and the integration of mail and calendar is very good. The keyboard commands are fairly comprehensive - I can't complain that my efficiency is reduced by a lack of keyboard operations (unlike Apple Mail, which I also use). Actually, Microsoft are very good at providing keyboard bindings for their graphical user interfaces - significantly superior to GNOME or Mozilla, disappointingly enough. Nothing is better for keyboard access than the UNIX text environment, including Emacs and Vi, the shell, etc. I'm using this environment quite extensively, with Pandoc's Markdown as my primary document format at the moment, and Git for revision control.