Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Outlook is a Piece of Crap

I've said it before, I'll say it again, Outlook is an evil piece of sh*t. I was happily using Eudora until my new gig forced me to use Outlook (well actually, the Crackberry that came with the gig forced me to use Outlook). I have been using Outlook- from now on I will call it Outhouse- for a month. Yesterday for no f*cking reason at all it refuses to send email.

Did I change anything? No.

Did I mess with the infamous "outhouse.pst" file? No.

Could I find any f*cking explanation of error code 0x80004005 on the internet? No.

The PoS software has screwed me time and time again. Corrupted PSTs, cryptic nonsensical errors, etc.

So if you get this message, do this:
- Rename your outlook.pst to i_know_this_is_shitty_software_but_i_am_stuck_with_it.pst
- Reopen Outlook and create a new PST
- Import your old one.
- Problem fixed. For this week.