Re:oh boy (Score 1)

Actually, there are several open source templates for the notes e-mail database. One well-known one is the one built by openNTF. That does contain many of the "bloated" things that you don't seem to like about the current client. On the openNTF site, however, there are a couple more mail template modifications. Including a very SIMPLE interface with most of the "unneeded features" hidden away where users won't see them. If you really, really hate the interface and all of your other applications are accessed via the web, don't open your Notes client at all. Use iNotes (ask your administrator if you don't know what this is. If they don't, that is probably the biggest problem with your Notes deployment right there). Oddly enough, I bet people will still be bitching about how much better the LookOut interface is once Hannover ships (the next Notes client). Unless that has changed, you can configure the preview pane in the client so that it looks pretty close to the way the LookOut client does. By the way, for those who say the Notes client is slow and bloated Outlook is bloated as well, and ALL it does is mail.