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which email client for new macbook?

Cybix

Cybix

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Feb 10, 2006
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macbook is on it's way (apparently)

I also have office:mac coming for it.. should I use the mail client that comes with office (entourage?) or the mac os X built in client? (mail?)... i read that you can search 'mail' with spotlight, but what about entourage?

which is better, or should I forget them both and use something else? :)

James
 
If they're giving you Entourage, consider using it. (Especially if you're going to be getting your mail from an Exchange Server.) It's what I run on my Macs.
 
It's up to you. I use Mail and have no complaints. I have a friend who loves Entourage. There are of course other email apps out there like Thunderbird and Eudora.
 
Although Office/Entourage may well run admirably on your forthcoming Intel Mac, it will be running under emulation (as well as Thunderbird, et al). Apple's mail program, on the other hand, is native, raring and ready to go. Also, Entourage is not yet Spotlight search compatible (supposedly, Microsoft expects to have that working in it's next update to Office 04) whereas Mail has always been Spotlight searchable.

Depending on your needs, unless there is something about Entourage that makes it irresistible to use, I would go with Apple's Mail, particularly since it's native to the machine you will be running it on. Mail has always worked fine for me in Tiger, and I have numerous mailboxes and 2 email accounts that it handles with no problem. Spotlight Mail searches are instantaneous, and the Spotlight-charged smart mailbox feature is terrific. Hard to beat.
 
Use Mail. It is a great app - clean and simple. I really dislike Entourage (the only reason I use it is for Hotmail), I find it really slow and clunky and it doesn't look all that great either.
 
thanks for the heads up. I'll check out 'mail' and see how I go. I think the 'spotlight' searchable is a big thing for me. And I guess that it's intel friendly.

I hope MS offer a reasonable cheap upgrade to office:mac 04 (universal) when it's out.. or their next version of office....
 
Entourage stinks. i don't want to offend any faithful Entourage users but i'd rather not deal with headache that is the Entourage mail database. when that thing gets corrupted well, good luck. Mail isn't amazing either but at least the messages are kept as separate files. Mail also integrates tightly with the rest of the OS and other apps. if you don't plan to use Address Book and iCal then you can use Entourage for email, contacts and calendar and have them all in the same place but if you plan to use any of Apple's bundled stuff then you'd be better with Mail.
 
tjwett said:
Entourage stinks. i don't want to offend any faithful Entourage users but i'd rather not deal with headache that is the Entourage mail database. when that thing gets corrupted well, good luck. Mail isn't amazing either but at least the messages are kept as separate files. Mail also integrates tightly with the rest of the OS and other apps. if you don't plan to use Address Book and iCal then you can use Entourage for email, contacts and calendar and have them all in the same place but if you plan to use any of Apple's bundled stuff then you'd be better with Mail.
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Use Entourage if you need an integrated calender/scheduler/address book and mail. I find Entourage's calander and address book functions to be more powerful than Apple's iCal and Address Book.

On the other hand, Mail.app allows you to make use of plugins that make your mail experience more enjoyable. My favourite plugin is Mail.Appetizer.
 
I thought the problems with corrupt Entourage databases were sorted a long time ago. It was a bad problem but it is now ancient history. Main problem with Entourage and I think Thunderbird as well is that Spotlight cant index it.

Thunderbird (in fairness I have only tried the PC version) I detested kept hanging when I went to import existing mail folders into it. Thunderbird fine for a couple of open souce mad geeks to chat to each other with but does not support enough protocols to be a serious email client.

Basically Mail is fine and integrates nicely with the Mac environment wish it had better importing and exporting though
 
i used entourage for awhile, but with the recent version of Mail in Tiger, i've switched.. i love it. much more clean than entourage
 
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