On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Diane Ross wrote: > Barry Rosenbaum wrote: > > > This was one of three major issues that caused me to stop using Entourage > > after being a charter subscriber. > > Barry, I guess you know that as soon as you move over to Mail, the problems > will get fixed. :-) > > Really, I would read the forums on Mail before you do move, it has lots of > problems too.
If you've been reading, you know about the problem I had over the weekend. I started using Mail for a few days but have gone back to Entourage due to features I really like not being in Mail as well as some other issues: Missing features: - Multiple schedules (I have some mail accounts that I check frequently and others less frequently. I also use schedules to do some housekeeping (such as emptying Deleted Items) which you can't do with Mail). - Send only accounts: I have special e-mail addresses that on receipt forward to other addresses. I want to be able to easily send as that address. Entourage will warn you if you omit receiving information but otherwise lets you create such an account. Mail insists that every account be both send and receive and creates an incoming folder for it. The only way I could make it work was to put dummy account informmtion in it and waste sidebar space with the incoming folder that will never see a message. - Custom headers: I have a need to add custom headers to some messages (approval headers when sending to an announcement mailing list I maintain). Easy to do in Entourage with a separate send-only account which adds the header (in Account setup somewhere). Impossible to do with Mail. Issues: - Rules are applied automatically only to new messages. If I've read the message elsewhere (such as webmail), the rules don't fire. - Rules move new messages to an IMAP folder, then don't show unread messages in that folder. This is intermittment. For instance, all mail addressed to this Entourage list are moved to my Entourage folder. But sometimes, even though there's unread mail in Entourage, Mail does not indicate there's new mail in the folder until I explicitly go to it. (not that Entourage is great in this area as it seems the first "receive mail" operation receives from the Inbox and moves it but then it takes a second "receive mail" operation to notice there's now unread mail in that folder, receive it from that IMAP folder, and update the count. This worked "properly" in 2004 but not in 2008). At least from my playing with Mail, it's now a standby application should I have problems with Entourage again (as is webmail). -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/>
