Mail questions
Hi,
I've searched amongst the forums before posting this, so I hope I'm not reiterrating anything.
I'm a recent PC > Mac convert (thoroughly impressed so far), but I have been having a few problems regarding choosing which apps to use a standard for my Macs. I've tried Outlook Express, and am not keen with it running under Classic, I want to have OS X all the way. I tried Eudora, but I think it looks cheap, and I'm not prepared to pay for Office X for Entourage.
So that leaves me with Mail, which I think actually looks very good and is quite easy to use. I have a few issues with it. The importing exporting is a bit shitty and if anybody has anygood ideas on how to get MS outlook 2002(not express) mail items into mail that would be dandy.
Also, I'm using a iMac 800 and iBook 600 and I find the ability to use the IMAP server at Mac.com a very cool way of having mails on both machines. If I have any large emails or I need to save I just save them to a personal mailbox on my iBook (as this is with me all the time). I'm having a problem sending mails though, and it's a bit annoying. On the move I write all my mails on the iBook (well duh!) and I use a personally registered domain name for my business (timc@une.ltd.uk). I do not use a dialup account I use Cable modem (via ethernet) and generally take my computer to clients sites where they have internet access, but do not have an internal SMTP server, so I need to use an external one. This is where smtp.mac.com comes in, but it will send my mail for the mac.com account, but when I use a different address in the From field (the business address) it rejects my mail.
However proud I am of my new mac.com address, I need to have my clients see my business address, an image thing I know, but that is what macs are all about anyway.
Thanks for your time, and sorry to go on so much
Tim
I've searched amongst the forums before posting this, so I hope I'm not reiterrating anything.
I'm a recent PC > Mac convert (thoroughly impressed so far), but I have been having a few problems regarding choosing which apps to use a standard for my Macs. I've tried Outlook Express, and am not keen with it running under Classic, I want to have OS X all the way. I tried Eudora, but I think it looks cheap, and I'm not prepared to pay for Office X for Entourage.
So that leaves me with Mail, which I think actually looks very good and is quite easy to use. I have a few issues with it. The importing exporting is a bit shitty and if anybody has anygood ideas on how to get MS outlook 2002(not express) mail items into mail that would be dandy.
Also, I'm using a iMac 800 and iBook 600 and I find the ability to use the IMAP server at Mac.com a very cool way of having mails on both machines. If I have any large emails or I need to save I just save them to a personal mailbox on my iBook (as this is with me all the time). I'm having a problem sending mails though, and it's a bit annoying. On the move I write all my mails on the iBook (well duh!) and I use a personally registered domain name for my business (timc@une.ltd.uk). I do not use a dialup account I use Cable modem (via ethernet) and generally take my computer to clients sites where they have internet access, but do not have an internal SMTP server, so I need to use an external one. This is where smtp.mac.com comes in, but it will send my mail for the mac.com account, but when I use a different address in the From field (the business address) it rejects my mail.
However proud I am of my new mac.com address, I need to have my clients see my business address, an image thing I know, but that is what macs are all about anyway.
Thanks for your time, and sorry to go on so much
Tim
Comments
Worth a shot. Otherwise, as GB said, you need to change your specific non-mac.com accounts to use your ISP's sendmail server.
As for Outlook, try exporting in whatever various options there are, and try importing those into Mail.app until you succeed.
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