Mail or Entourage X?

dcq

Hello all,



Just got Office X (I like it) and OS X 10.2 (ditto). I have been using Mail ever since I switched to 10.0.



I have generally been unhappy with Mail (random long hang times when switching to different mailboxes were the most annoying thing), and was planning to switch to something else as soon as I could.



But then I got Office X and 10.2 at the same time. Mail seems to have been improved quite a bit in 10.2; although hang times--the spinning beach ball of death--do still occur, they are shorter and less frequent. (Of course, in OS 9, Outlook Express never had any "hang times," even on my old iMac.)



So the question is, which would you all recommend: Mail or Entourage X? What has your experience been? What's the buzz? I also use iCal (though I am not a .Mac customer... member... sucker... whatever), so any input on the relative strength of Entourage's calendar vs. iCal would be greatly appreciated as well.



Thanks in advance for your help and suggestions.



DCQ

dygysy

See this thread:

<a href="http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=128242"; target="_blank">http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=128242</a>;

dcq

[quote]Originally posted by dygysy:

<strong>See this thread:

<a href="http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=128242"; target="_blank">http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=128242</a></strong><hr></blockquote>;



thanks. prolly should have checked the archive.



DCQ

mrmister

Entourage...its biggest drawback is that it is expensive, and since you bought Office, that is obviated.

stunned

Entourage is definately better since you dun have a .mac account and if u have no need to publish calenders



i like entourage intergrated functions such as calender, address book and tasks. As much as i would like to use ical and os X's address book, i still find them slightly inferior to Entourage and thus i am sticking to entourage.



And entourage has a highly efficeint junk filter too!



I am sure u will be happy with entourage.

kelib

Mail because it has full Unicode support. Not a big deal for most people but for multi lingual people it really is

whatever

eudora



(btw, the current macworld reviews and details pros/cons of all the popular email programs)

stunned

[quote]Originally posted by kelib:

<strong>Mail because it has full Unicode support. Not a big deal for most people but for multi lingual people it really is</strong><hr></blockquote>



Entourage also enable to send emails using different languanges. As mentioned, only useful if u need this function