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 > > http://www.mossroot.com > AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Y!: rscrawford > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Howard Dean for America: http://www.deanforamerica.com > "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is > invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupéry > > > Sliante, > Richard S. Crawford > > http://www.mossroot.com > AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Y!: rscrawford > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Howard Dean for America: http://www.deanforamerica.com > "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is > invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Hmm, to be honest, I've had nothing but pain and anguish from Outlook 2k on WinXP. I've had to upgrade every XP box we have here to Office XP just to get Outlook to even work. Is this a reasonable step for you to take? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
