I Bought a Mac - Latest Comments in Leopard’s Mail.app Makes Me Sad

Re: Leopard’s Mail.app Makes Me Sad

Chris — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:25:26 -0000

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

Re: Leopard’s Mail.app Makes Me Sad

Rick Curran — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:44:18 -0000

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.

Re: Leopard’s Mail.app Makes Me Sad

Jordan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:05:26 -0000

Yeah.. I'll stick to apple mail.

Re: Leopard’s Mail.app Makes Me Sad

Tim Wilson — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:33:37 -0000

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 :-)

Re: Leopard’s Mail.app Makes Me Sad

illovich — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:36:45 -0000

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.

Re: Leopard’s Mail.app Makes Me Sad

GeekLady — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:38:01 -0000

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.

Re: Leopard’s Mail.app Makes Me Sad

Aditya Naik — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:18:28 -0000

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..

Re: Leopard’s Mail.app Makes Me Sad

doog — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:42:29 -0000

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.