The Crooked and the Straight

Since I posted my entry on Outlook's annoying IMAP behavior, I've gotten a few requests for copies of the program I wrote to automatically dismiss the bothersome error dialogs.

I was a little surprised that there were other people who find this behavior as frustrating as I do, but I suppose that's just more evidence as to the disservice Microsoft does to their customers by not fixing these obvious kinds of bugs. (I only wonder how many people have simply switched to another better IMAP client simply because of this issue.)

Anyhow, you wanted it, you got it. Introducing Ook: the Outlook dialOg Killer. It's a little .NET app that just sits around waiting for a dialog it likes and then gives it the ol' WM_CLOSE treatment. I spent some time cleaning up the app and the source code, and I decided to release both under the BSD license. I even put together some rudimentary documentation. Ook isn't the prettiest app or the best code I've ever written, but it gets the job done--for me, at least.

I hope some other people find it useful. I welcome any feedback you might have about it.