Entourage vs Mail
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- johnnnnyh
As someone who is switching to Mac from PC (Outlook for mail) and I now have a copy of Entourage what is the general opinion of using that over Mac Mail?
I have been using Mail, are there any nasties lurking for me if I switch to Entourage?
Thoughts, comments?
- ernexbcn0
the new Office 2010 for Mac will have Outlook, they finally nuked Entourage, I'd suggest you stick with Mail and perhaps upgrade later to real Outlook if you really like that...
- welded0
Entourage isn't that bad but it isn't particularly 'Mac-ish' and personally I'd use Mail if given the option. The Entourage support in Snow Leopard is complete enough for my purposes, anyway.
- dMullins0
Entourage is okay, if you like huge icons and the inability to remove shit you never use. Yah, Entourage sucks.
- hiimerik0
Mail.
- iheartfun0
Mail
- bulletfactory0
Mail
- graphiknature0
I've used both. Mail FTW
- vaxorcist0
switching bak is harder than switching to Entourage....
I did know a system admin whose job forced him to use what he called "Enter-Rage" ... he hated it, but the scheduling parts were what his boss used to constantly give him little micromanaged timeslots for stuff...
- I have to use entourage for pretty much the same reasons. I fucking hate itrascuache
- Natson130
Mail all day! I'm being forced to use Entourage, cos of a new PC server.... I think it is shit!!
- utopian0
Entourage MUTHAFUCKR
- CyBrain0
I cannot imagine a single reason to ever use Entourage or any Microsoft product over an equivalent Mac product.
Congratulations on your upgrade to Mac.
- Jordy0
Mail doesn't work well with an exchange server when it comes to scheduling meetings and scheduling other events ... that's why so many people use entourage because they have to be able to communicate with people on windows and exchange servers and schedule meetings with those people ...
snow leopard has some exchange support now but only for newer versions of exchange servers..
still i prefer mail .. fuck meetings.
- PC/Account people love constant meetings/communicati... MAC/Design people need quiet timevaxorcist
- scrap_paper0
Kinda of an aside question regarding mail:
I've noticed that when adding attachments PC users can have issues saving them. The file (usually occurs with image files) seems to embed itself into the email. My suggestions have always been to simply right click and save the image to the desktop or wherever but there have been instances where the user can't even do that.
My solutions has bee to zip the image file and resend but it doesn't really address the problem. Suggestions?
- Boz0
I use Outlook a lot.. but Mail is pretty good on OSX.. it does the job..
I still hate the fact that column customization doesn't include weekday the email was received but that's a minor gripe..
You might also hate the fact that Mail will embed images you attach directly in the email and will always show the huge ass image in your mails.. you can disable that with simple line from terminal:
$ defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -boolean YES
if you ever decide you want it back on you just replace YES with NO in that line
- fyoucher10
I switched to Mac last summer. Outlook is the one Micro$oft program I miss. A gazillion times better than Mail. I tried Entourage but it wasn't Outlook and I didn't want to try messing with it. Mail is simple but doesn't have all of the nice features of Outlook.
If I were you I'd just stick with OSX's native Mail until Outlook for Mac comes out later this year. It sucks that Address Book, iCal, and Mail are all separate apps. It was nice in Outlook that they were all in one program and you could quickly switch back and forth between the apps and have less clutter.
As far as nice HTML signatures go, you can make them in Mail, they're just a MAJOR pain in the ass (just Google how to do it).
If you use Hotmail, you'll need to buy a plugin for Mail called mBox (google it) so you can access Hotmail folders. I use Hotmail for email archiving (have the paid Hotmail plan).
- ribit0
Entourage is just horrible. If its Exchange Server 2007 and Snow Leopard, then Mail, Address Book and iCal do all the Outlook stuff.
I run Outlook in Parallels (its the only app I use in Parallels, apart from occasional site testing in Explorer). Works well, I think its less hassle than dealing with Entourage, and means I have total compatibility with my Outlook-using colleagues. Really waiting for Outlook for Mac though.
- Frosty_spl0
Vince is awesome.
- jaylarson0
fwiw, outlook will be in the version of office for macs.