Entourage is part of the Mac Office 2004 and 2007 apps I have, but I did not know how robust they are in either version. I may run dual machines for a while to see how well Entourage handles my load. I do have an app that migrates Outlook to Entourage without me having to go through lots of Hoops Of Fire. Seems M$ would have built that kind of tool, but for a client project last year I ended up using I think it is a "Tiny Machine" or "Little Machine" app designed to do that. It worked well, only $10.
Thanks! Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Paul McNett > Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 11:49 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Opinion Needed about "The Dark Side" > > > Gil Hale wrote: > > My concern is that in the Mac (or Linux) I may never get that kind of > > application reliability with the amount of info I retain. I > need to know if > > anyone has any opinion about any Mac OS X compatible Mac eMail, > Calendar and > > Contact Management apps, to include the Mac Office offerings, > that they have > > heard or found to be reliable and easy to deal with as Outlook. > > You will be hard-pressed to replace Outlook, if you are really > using all the > integrated and proprietary email-calendar-contact management. > However, I run my own > mail server and use IMAP to store my email, and I've retained > *all* non-spam email > received and sent, with attachments, for over 10 years. It comes > in at about 12 GB, > all accessible almost instantaneously from whatever email client > on whatever computer > I elect to connect from. > > I back up my mail store, among other things, from my server in LA > to my laptop here > in Hollister nightly, using rsync. It takes like 3 minutes. > > I've long wanted to move to the next step of integrating an LDAP > server for my > contacts and iCal entries, but haven't gotten that far yet. > > So, while you won't find a drop-in replacement for Outlook for > Linux or Mac (unless > you go with Mac Entourage), the pieces are there just not > integrated in a monolithic app. > > Paul > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
