MS Exchange is irritating me.
I don’t have to use the product (yet) but its inferior vacation messaging is extremely annoying. Today I send a planned outage notice to our internal notice maillist and received two vacation emails from Exchange users that are out of the office — ARGH. Vacation mailers should not notify the sender when the on vacation person is not in the list of recipients. The University of Washington’s Email Delivery Manager (EDM) has had this feature for YEARS. In addition, EDM adds a unique header that signifies that the vacation notice was sent by the vacation program. And one more thing: Why the hell are the vacation notices sent as base64 encoded text/plain and text/html! How about saving everyone the trouble and just send the text without the encoding? Stupid bloated annoying crap. These are small trivial issues that should be able to be resolved with about 2 hours of development time — including unit tests and documentation.
It will only get worse.