You miss the point. By config she means whether to display html mail as html, whether to display images from external sources, her language (for spell checking), her preferred set of fonts etc
OK - but if you've just changed job, the overhead of this will get lost in the noise. And this even assumes that these decisions are rightly to be left up to the employee, and not decided by the company. (E.g., HTML email display and/or displaying remote images may be a security risk, and so it could be banned entirely. It's not unusual to mandate fonts and signature for public-facing correspondence. And so on.)
But there are a lot of things which are extremely annoying in the default settings. For example in localised versions of Outlook, replys don't get "RE" in the subject line but, e.g. in the German version "AW". Also other behaviours which makes using Outlook really painfull. (Which I can't remember because I didn't use for a while now)
Yeah, I usualy turn displaying remote images off too.
Also, are there really companies who forces a certain font for emails? That is risky since you can't know if the other side supports that font.
For signature, there are even legal requirements which information needs to be provided.
My Outlook deals with AW and RE transparently, to the point where I don't even see any of them when in conversation mode. What's the specific problem you have with it?
On my first day in a new job I want to get through set up as soon as possible so that I can actually start to get stuck into some deliverables. I don't want to spend 30 minutes faffing with my email client.
