On 29/1/03 16:45, "Domains4Days.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since the first of the year, I have been comparing the file sizes of three > E-mail programs: Entourage X - Eudora 5.22 (X) - and Jaguar 10.2.3 Mail > > > For the most part, all three programs have the exact same message contents > as far as I can tell. Since 1/1/03, I have collected a total of 11,500 > messages (all list servers - no attachments) in each of the three duplicate > mail folders. The results are as follows: > > Total messages = 11,500 > > Microsoft entourage X ( after rebuild) > 45 meg > > Eudora 5.22 > 35 meg > > Jaguar 10.2.3 Mail > 41 meg > > As you can see, they're all not too far off from each other ( within 10 > MB). Although Eudora is a smaller file size than the other two programs, it > is not nearly as small a size as I was hoping it would be (... I was hoping > that it would be 10 or 15 MB as opposed to 35 MB). It seems as though a few > years ago Eudora mail box sizes were far smaller than the competitors. As > you can see, this is no longer the case... > > > * OT: although Eudora searches are many, many times faster than entourage, > entourage has some great calendar and task features that Eudora doesn't > have... > > > * of course, I would be very interested in hearing any other comparisons > related to these three programs. Eudora holds its mail in plain text mailboxes, without any links to contacts, little 'tertiary' information such as categories etc and does not retain the full source of each message. Entourage on the other hand, as well as the mail, keeps calendar, to-do, notes and contacts in the database. Also, it is Unicode savvy, so mail can be contained in each and evry language (this is the main reason why Entourage searches are slower than Eudora's). Entourage also keeps the attachments with the mails that sent them, and can carry out extensive linking between messages, their replies, the contacts who sent them and a variety of calendar information. Apple mail I am sorry to say is a humble programme, and has much to be humble about (with apologies to Sir Winston Churchill) -- Barry -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
