Entourage vs. Mail 1.2 (Mac)

[Numbers1820]

I've been using Entourage for about a month now. It's the first calendar/address book/to-do program I've tried, and I like it pretty well.

The real clincher for me to use Entourage vs. Mail is that I have had a Hotmail account since, like, forever, and everybody knows me by it, and Mail doesn't seem to be able to import it.

Some people like Jag's Mail's spam filter lots. That may be ok, but I don't mind deleting the 10 or so spams I get a day by hand. If I got dozens or hundreds, that may be a different story.

Entourage is very tightly integrated in its components. I like that.

I don't know if Mail/iCal, which would basically replace what I use Entourage for, would replace that level of integration and it-just-works-ness.

If you're eyeing iCal for its calendar/to-do functionality, I'd wait a few weeks and see how other users are liking it (or not), and what patches Apple puts out (if any) before taking the plunge.

[Pardus]

I switched to Mail when Jag came out and for the most part am pretty happy with it. The other day I sent out a newsletter for a client through an online perl script that sends as HTML format. When I looked at the message I had sent out with Mail, all the images were pink rectangles. The page was laid out properly but no images? I could of sworn i had received other html emails properly but when i went through old mail, every html formatted email had those pink rectangles. I tried all sorts of things with prefs and view menu but nothing shows the images....am I really stupid or is this some sort of glitch. Even my apple newsletter I got today is like this?????

[PowermacG4_450]

I prefer eudora pro. used it for years. Its not the best looking interface wise, but it works. And Im familiar with the shortcut commands.

I tried entourage, and it just dont feel 'right'.

[rochbasse]

This is infuriating! I don't know why this program does not render or support CSS. Does anybody have any ideas?

[boi]

it seems macworld doesn't like mail.app either. it says it has poor integration with address book, which i find kind of ironic. i, however, enjoy the simplicity of mail.app. it's hard to find the line between simplicity and complication when you're creating a feature-packed application.

[bigbadbill]

OK, I've been using mail since it came out and I must say that I like Entourage better. I don't like haveing to 3 separate application for Calendar, Mail and Address Book. And Entourage's built in dictionairy is much more convenient then Sherlock's (also it's much easier to find a word you can't spell!)

Now I'd like to return to Entourage but I need to bring all my Mail messages with me. This was no problem going from Entourage to Mail, but does anyone know how to get them back into Entourage? Contacts are not an issue, as they easily drag & drop. As far as calendar goes, I can reenter the few appointments I have, no biggie there either. But what about Mail messages, am I stuck here in Mail forever???