On 24 Dec 2004, at 19:39, G-Books wrote:
What are the major differences between Entourage and Outlook Express? I have both but has never used either. I've always used the mail application that comes with netscape for my isp mail. What am I missing? TIA. Pete.
Outlook Express implements the POP3 protocol only, as far as mail is concerned - it also implements the NNTP protocol for News. Thus an Outlook Express client can be used with an Exchange server, assuming the Exchange system has got its POP3 service turned on. They generally have, but not necessarily so.
Outlook (the full Outlook client on Windows boxes) is an implementation of the client end of Microsoft's MAPI protocol. Exchange server also uses this protocol (it's an application-level protocol, not a network-level protocol) so an Exchange server and an Outlook client talk MAPI to each other. This is a more feature-rich protocol than either POP3 or IMAP4. Thus when used with an Exchange server it is 'better', ie more feature-rich. It also includes POP3 functionality, and if used with just a standard mail server (eg an ISP's mail server) probably uses just that, in which case it's not really any better than any other POP3 client.
Entourage can be regarded as an implementation of Outlook (not Outlook Express) on OS X.
Tom Burke
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