I never realized how well Microsoft Outlook 2003 works until I was forced to use Lotus Notes mail at work. Notes was like a time machine taking me back to 1995. A day didn’t go by where I didn’t delete or misplace email, and the rules I’d setup to move mail into certain folders only occasionally worked. This was one of the least intuitive programs I’ve ever used.
A few weeks into this Notes fiasco I was tipped off to the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector for IBM Lotus Domino which works very well. I’m back in business. This weekend our MIS department finally decided to ditch Notes and move our company to MDaemon mail server which is a huge improvement over Notes. I can now use Outlook (or any other POP mail client) without having to use a connector. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we’ll move to Exchange server in the future so we’ll have all the calendaring features as well at RPC over HTTP enabling us to use the Outlook client from outside the firewall. But I can’t complain because anything is a huge improvement over Notes.
It’s good to be back in Outlook.
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