The result: weboutlook, a Python library that screen-scrapes Outlook Web Access. So I figured I'd do a bit of programming to make my life easier. It's just simpler and more efficient to have all my e-mail in one place.And Outlook Web Access doesn't auto-refresh, so I have to remember to click "Inbox" every so often to get the latest messages. Using webmail forces me to keep a browser window/tab open to check messages.(And I'm on Linux, so I can't use Internet Explorer.) It's hard to search, the icons are unintuitive, it encourages top-posting and doesn't have the basic benefits of a desktop e-mail app, such as spell-checking and address auto-completion. Outlook Web Access has a horrendous user interface in any browser other than Internet Explorer.Because I telecommute, I'm limited to using my company's webmail interface, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, rather than having direct POP or IMAP access to e-mail.
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