[OL Contacts in OE]
Would it be possible to contact the said MVP directly?
And would there be any way to reach the developers?
I do not know how the communications between OL and OE did work
technically.
But without having been given a valid reason I would doubt that it
was
technically impossible to re-create what works perfectly well in OL
2003.
And I doubt that disabling in OL 2007 what worked in OL 2003 would
be
based on a rational decision. I'd rather assume that it was just
forgotten/overlooked/neglected.
Why don't you witch to Outlook for email? That would be a much
easier solution.
Oh NO!! Anything, but not that!
Don't be that cruel to poor ME [siiigh].
Honestly speaking: This hardly would be an option for me.
There's a loooooooooog list of reasons which I can not / do not want
to write down and explain in this branch of a thread which is TOT
(totally off topic) already.
Just to name a few:
1.) It's a basic paradigma that the "best software" is the software
the *USER* knows to handle best.
OL never ever has been too friendly to me and it has quite some logics
which are not too compatible with mine <g> :-( :-(
And I know OE (and almost most of its shortcomings and anomalies
[siiigh]).
2.) The UI of OE is far less overdone than the one of Outlook.
All of this graphical Schnickschnack was bad enough already in the
early versions and the overkill grew with each version.
It's even worse now. The "card" view for Contacts is a very good
example for how-not-to-do GUI elements. [siiiigh]
3.) Not only because of that (but the graphical overkill is a relevant
factor in so far) OE is ways faster than Outlook.
4.) OE has a newsreader integrated.
And "integrated" in so far means "fully integrated". Not just a
plug-in which is - willing or not - forced to share the logics and the
functionality of the "host"-application (in this case Outlook, which
is not all designed for handling newsgroup stuff).
OE is not that powerful as the "professionals" (be it Forte Agent or -
especially - Gravity).
But it's "good enough for me" [" ... and feeling good was good enough
for Me, Me and my Bobby McGhee.." <Kris Kristofferson: Me And Bobby
McGhee">]
Although the Newsgroup-Gurus always laughed at Me for using such a
"primitive" instrument, I kept with it (after having tried the
profi-tools <!>).
The *integration* of mail and news in the *same* app and thereby in
the very same *UI* was reason enough for me to stay with OE (the only
other app doing both, Forte Agent, is just awful IMHO).
Pls don't argue that there were Add-ins/Plug-ins for OE for handling
NGs.
As a while ago you mentioned that you did the very hard work you do in
the NGs under OL with Newshound, I tried that out.
IMO ways far less productive than the good old simple OE. [siiiigh].
And honestly speaking, I can hardly believe that you are able to cope
with the daily workload you have on your shoulders using this kind of
an instrument. :-( :-(
5.) Finally - last but not least -: although having made the move to
IMPAP for mail a while ago and by that having the relevant main
folders on the mail-server, there's quite a hierarchy of local folders
in my OE mail-directory where tons of stuff from the past are stored;
although the DBX-folders of OE not really are a place for an e-mail
archive (nor would OL's PST be that <!!g>), there's app. 2.2GB of data
hanging in OE's dbx-folders. And there is no way (at least none that I
would know of) to import that into OL.
What to do with this stuff?
Just send it to Nirvana?
If it's not working now, it won't get fixed. We are almost in the
last week of the beta.
Fortunately or unfortunately: YES.
Still I won't give up hope.
As said before, I do not think that there is any technical *need*
behind the presently given malfunctioning.
What in my last posting I quoted from your quoting of an (unknown) OL
MVP does not at all mean that it would impossible to just *maintain*
the data-sharing feature of OL which enabled OE to have a hand on the
Contacts of OL (both ways, BTW, i.e.: picking up data from the PST and
editing data in the PST).
As said before:
I do not think that there would have been a willful decision behind
the isuue I'm whining about.
And I seriously doubt that the OL-developers (having the quoted
concept in mind " ... no need to care, it was broken/disabled in OL
2003 already" [which is *seriously*wrong*]) did make any decisions in
so far.
I'd rather assume that they simply were not aware of the situation.
I'm still naive enough to think that just some simple API-interface
would be sufficient to re-enable what's broken in the moment.
If not in the Office Final, perhaps with a patch soon after.
Therefore I repeat what I quoted in the initial lines of this reply:
- Would it be possible to contact the said MVP directly?
- And would there be any way to reach the developers?
I'm pretty sure that some folks in the OL team - being that aware of
users' needs as Ilya or Daniel Escapa (just to name some) are in the
ON-team - being told about the situation might find a way to re-enable
what has been working pretty well for many long years.
Sorry to say so, but what you reported as the result of your enquiries
just mirrors bloody ignorance on the side of those who replied to you.
Mille gracie, tausend Dank
and kindest regards
Rainald
