Comments on: Apple Mail vs. Entourage with Exchange Server

By: G. Schelling

G. Schelling — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:45:46 +0000

Can I also add built-in decoding on winmail.dat files? I still get five emails a day from colleagues that have winmail.dat attachments.

By: Bob Tudor

Bob Tudor — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:49:03 +0000

Simply put:

- Make Search as good as mail.app with Spotlight.
- Intel Macs

The only reason I keep mail.app around is its incredible search speed and ease of use sifting through 4 gigs of offline mail. Even on my PC side with a large PST/Vista, I miss mail.app for this reason. They really have searching nailed at Apple but using mail.app in imap mode with exchange 2007 has hangs, slow quit, and limitations of collab apps integration (no calendar or address book) And the sync services feature is nice but a bit buggy merging data with iphones, mac apps, and entourage.

Bob

By: Bill W.

Bill W. — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:41:26 +0000

I have been using Entourage and recently purchased a Blackberry. Entourage is supposed to support iSync, but it has to sync to Apple Mail and iCal to get to my Blackberry. I have NEVER gotten this to work.

I am getting Exchange mail in Entourage and on my Blackberry from outside the firewall. Both allow me to use the Exchange web mail service. I **dearly** wish that Apple Mail would support this communication scheme.

Bill

By: Raymond Born

Raymond Born — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:08:27 +0000

For the love of God,

I can’t believe an actual entourage developer posted here and nobody mentioned category support. This is the single greatest oversight in Entourage and the gigantic limiting factor in its functionality.

CATEGORIES SYNCING ACROSS WIN/MAC PLATFORMS AND YOU’VE ACTUALLY DONE SOMETHING.

I hope you read this ANDY RUFF. This has been a MASSIVE oversight for multi-platform users and syncers.

Thanks,

Ray Born, President
ImPressure-Clean, Inc.
http://www.impressureclean.com

By: Bob Sneidar

Bob Sneidar — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:49:16 +0000

We switched from Exchange to Kerio Mail Server which has an Outlook-like MAPI portion. Outlook users can use it like Exchange and it works almost identically. It has an AWESOME web mail interface that gives you calendar/contact/to-to’s with built in spam and antivirus filtering at the server. BUT…
Apple Mail does not support MAPI. IMAP will show the folders for the public contacts and everythign else, but they are in a format that is basically unusable to most people, and even though I can see the calendar events and such, they show up as mail with attachments which, when you click on them import just that event or to-do into iCal. Not usable.
So DITTO on can-we-get-MAPI-in-Apple Mail-PLEASE?

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:16:22 +0000

Sorry. A cheap shot. I don’t really know all that much about Entourage.

Have you tried everything in this list on the Entourage Tips web site:

http://www.entourage.mvps.org/database/reduce.html

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:13:03 +0000

Mail.app is a terrific client ;-)

By: KHC

KHC — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:02:57 +0000

Entourage has a 4GB limit to its email database. Can some knowledgeable soul tell me if Apple Mail have a limit to its database too?

I used Entourage and I keep important emails from umpteen years ago for reference. Recently my email database reach the critical 4GB limit and I deleted quite a lot of emails before compacting the database. To my surprise the file size did not reduce.

Now I may have to abandon Entourage because I have reached its DB limit.

Any comments???

By: KIR

KIR — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:47:27 +0000

I just left Mail for Entourage and am quite liking it actually, but how about making the spotlight feature a programme-internal one like you have in iTunes, iCal etc.? Much better than doing a full spotlight search that brings up every-singe-document-and-file-and-folder-and-email-and-meeting in the computer. Also, frankly, that search bar in Entourage is ugly. I know we all sound ilke ponces to windows people, but please give it a nice looking one like you get in other Mac apps.

Go on, be daring… make it look/feel at least a little like a Mac programme. We all bought macs with the wonderful visuals partially in mind, and MS have to remember that, because heavy Entourage users spend a lot of their day looking at something that is a bit disappointing. Absolutely love Office 2004 otherwise though :0)

By: Emily RugBurn

Emily RugBurn — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:19:33 +0000

I’m relatively new to MAC (just got an iBook as a gift from my husband). We are both loving Entourage, for the most part, but there are a couple of key features missing.

First, the “request read receipt” feature which is available on Outlook (it lets you know if/when your e-mail was read). This is exteremly handy if you think you’re experiencing technical difficulties but have sent time-sensitive messages.

Second, it’d be really great if there was an option to send an “Out of Office” automated message for when I’m out of town or otherwise unavailable to respond.

Others, I’m sure have already mentioned this, but after Mr. RugBurn switched to Entourage and pulled all his e-mail from his server, Entourage crashed and corrupted his database file beyond repair. All was lost before we even had a chance to back it up. Not sure how or why this happened, but I’ll bet we’re not the first to lose everything.

Thanks for the opportunity to improve a “good” product that has the potential to be really great.

Cheers,
EmRB