Where is Outlook Express for OSX?

satchmosatchmo
Posted:
in Mac Software edited January 2014
Obviously MS is not in any hurry or threat from any other e-mail app, but come on...where's OE for OSX?



Sure I can use Apple's mail app, but I've organized so much at work with OE and can simply check my mail from home.

Of course I'm trying to go completely OSX at home first, so this OE is a roadblock to doing that.

Perhaps never, but I'm hopeful MS will unveil this at MWSF.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 16
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    If you aren't content with any of the free mail apps, Microsoft wants you to fork out a few hundred dollars to get Entourage in the Office suite.



    I have heard absolutely nothing encouraging about Microsoft porting Outlook Express to Mac OS X; so, I would not recommend you just keep on waiting. You'd be best to start moving your mail and contacts into Mail.app or some other native program.
  • Reply 2 of 16
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    Well, they did just make Entourage a separate purchase option, but it's still not on the cheap.
  • Reply 3 of 16
    cybermonkeycybermonkey Posts: 604member
    You can run outlook express through calssic if you must use it.
  • Reply 4 of 16
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    hoping to finally be able to run all thoe M$ OE- viruses also on OS X ... or why OE?





    of all the possible mail apps, why OE?

    i'd choose _anything_ else...
  • Reply 5 of 16
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    one word: business
  • Reply 6 of 16
    satchmosatchmo Posts: 2,699member
    [quote]Originally posted by Defiant:

    <strong>one word: business</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Bingo.

    That plus I haven't found another mail app that offers as much customization. If anyone can suggest something better, by all means let me know.
  • Reply 7 of 16
    trumptmantrumptman Posts: 16,464member
    I personally enjoyed Outlook Express. Microsoft does make the occasional good app. Outlook Express was nice on the Mac because it integrated with regular mail and also hotmail. It ran at a reasonable speed on reasonable hardware. It was efficient and enjoyable.



    There are plenty of areas where I will gladly knock Microsoft, but Outlook Express on the Mac wasn't one of them.



    Nick
  • Reply 8 of 16
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    well, tastes are different.. i never wanted OE neither in windows. so, eudora.. then kmail ...



    and now mail.app .. plus leaving the trashmails such as hotmail to be seen in web.
  • Reply 9 of 16
    gargoylegargoyle Posts: 660member
    what sort of customisation are you looking for?



    I currently use OE on windblows, but not for its features... more lack of them. I find the likes of "full" outlook too overblown with stuff I dont use!!



    OE is my current choice cos its simple... I cant see what it does that other apps dont!
  • Reply 10 of 16
    crawlingparanoiacrawlingparanoia Posts: 443member
    Microsoft won't make any money off of OE so we'll never see it for OS X.
  • Reply 11 of 16
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    I hope not! There's Mail, and of course Entourage, so between them why port OE? They should spend their money making a Word that saves files with names longer than 32 characters, for example, before making freeware.
  • Reply 12 of 16
    bigbluebigblue Posts: 341member
    There's a big difference between Outlook and Outlook Express. Express is used by most people, is free and can f.e. read HTML-mails. Outlook (sans Express) comes and works with Microsoft Exchange Server, wich offcourse you have to buy. Outlook (on the Mac) cannot read html-mails, and is pretty poor overall in mail-reading (try links).

    BUT everyone in the corporate world uses it, and it's the only way for using a Mac in a PC oriented network and using mail.



    Now you know why M$ keeps the OSX corp. version down. It keeps OSX Mac acceptance in corps. down too. 'So you want to use a Mac ? Can you mail with MES ? No ? Sorry !'

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  • Reply 13 of 16
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    OE for mac was quite a good app and I would say it was an acceptable replacement for Claris Emailer (I've heard many of the Claris people are now at MS MacBU?).



    I'm not missing much from Mail though. It's SLOW as hell, unfortunately, which may be because I'm working with 5,000+ message IMAP mailboxes so it should cache the messages better. The other thing I'm missing is newsreading. But Halime seems to slowly develop into an excellent OS X newsreader with a similar similar to Mail.app
  • Reply 14 of 16
    trailmaster308trailmaster308 Posts: 699member
    [quote]Originally posted by Aquatic:

    <strong>I hope not! There's Mail, and of course Entourage, so between them why port OE?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Probably because he is trying to check his mail against a M$ Exchange Server.

  • Reply 15 of 16
    foadfoad Posts: 717member
    I just got a copy of Office X from my friend for Christmas...yeah I know it's late.



    What do you guys think is better? Entourage or Mail?



    Any suggestions would be great!



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  • Reply 16 of 16
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    I prefer Mail.



    I used to use Entourage (and before v.X I ran it in Classic) and was quite content with it, but I decided (on a dare, really) to try Mail for one week. I was much impressed by Mail's compact, native interface and by the overall lack of bloat that Entourage seemed to carry like an albatross. Entourage has a million and one features that are all poorly organized and can eat up a vast amounts of screen real estate. Mail sticks to what is important and organizes it to be immediately accesible. I liked that. Mail is fast too and the live filter query is excellent.
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