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Leopard’s Mail.app Makes Me Sad

Started by brentspore · 9 months ago

I’m really enjoying the move to Leopard. The new cat really screams on my MacBook Pro. I’ve been awaiting an Intel compatable version of Microsoft Office for a while now but since Apple released iWork ‘08, I’ve completely moved to Pages and Numbers f ... Continue reading »

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  • doog

    1 year ago

    Funny, I actually prefer smaller, better, discrete PIM apps over monolithic ones. If Entourage is anything like Outlook, then it stores all of your PIM data in a single, monolithic, fairly proprietary file that, if corrupted, means that you corrupt everything.

    The address book and iCal are pretty well integrated with Mail and that works well enough for me, and I can ignore HTML mail, just as I did when I used to use Outlook.

    Of course, I have no need for Exchange integration, so perhaps that explains some.
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  • Aditya Naik

    1 year ago

    Did i miss something here.. "an Intel compatable version of Microsoft Office"

    i have a macbook and i use office on it all the time.. i used entourage for a while but i didnt like as much so i switched to mail..
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  • GeekLady

    1 year ago

    He means an Intel native version. Right now it runs in Rosetta, I believe.

    But seriously, the folders are too big? The folders and mailboxes in Mail's sidebar are the same size as the folders in Entourage's sidebar! Frankly, this is too small.

    I know you can set up an Exchange account in Mail, even in Tiger, because I'm doing it right now, my email syncs just fine. If Mail can't do anything Outlook/Entourage can, then they must not deliver email.

    Honestly this doesn't even read like he used Leopard Mail for more than 5 minutes.
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  • illovich

    1 year ago

    I wish mail had some more features (I specifically wish it had a key that would toggle showing unread mail only -- I can kludge it with a "smart" folder, but...)

    But I specifically dropped Entourage after the second time my mail glob got corrupted. I prefer an application that stores things separately, precisely because a failure of all your personal information is so painful.
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  • Tim Wilson

    1 year ago

    Wow, I never thought I would hear of someone preferring Entourage. The great thing about Apple Mail is that is it lightweight, but still integrates with Address Book and iCal.

    I found Entourage bulky, clunky, and ugly! sure Mail could have extra features, but I think its still heaps better :-)
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  • Jordan

    1 year ago

    Yeah.. I'll stick to apple mail.
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  • Rick Curran

    1 year ago

    The all-in-one storage format of Entourage is a problem for the Time Machine backup too, if you've got a nice 2Gb file and you make a minor change then that whole 2Gb file gets backed up. Apple switched to a system of separate files back when Tiger was released in order to let Spotlight index these files more easily, this also works perfectly for Time Machine.
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  • Chris

    1 year ago

    Apple Mail is great - unless you have imap accounts with a lot of messages, it dies almost every hour with my gmail IMAP.
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