I truly hate the current state of email.

I use microsoft outlook, which for the most part is a good program.

Here are my gripes:

1. The search in outlook sucks
2. Spam is 98% of the email I receive

On #1: I tried to remedy this by downloading and installing Lookout, which is an awesome search tool.

On #2: I have tried various spam blockers, and I am currently using some toolbar plug in that runs inside of outlook to route emails that are junk to a dead folder

Here's my problem: Now that I've installed both of these tools, outlook behaves in a very buggy way.

1. Sometimes the spam filter doesn't even kick in.
   
2. Sometimes certain features of outlook just fail to work:
   
   
   
   1. Forwarding attachments directly from word sometimes fails.
      
   2. Sometimes closing and restarting outlook fails. It will close, but it will never start back up. I can see it as an active process in task manager, but I can't get it to appear
      
   3. Simple things like using the delete key to delete an email won't work.
      
   4. When I try to right click on an attachment I've received, the pop-up menu will quickly appear and disapper.
      
   
   

In closing: AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHHH!!!

Whoever fixes the current state of email will be deservedly rich.