Comments on: Screw Apple Mail and iCal, I’m moving to Outlook 2007

by: me too

Fri, 16 May 2008 03:55:16 +0000

I’ve tied to like Mail at work (Tiger) and at home (Leopard) but I keep going back to using Outlook 2007 on my Windows system. One of my biggest complaints with Mail is its piss poor junk mail filtering. I’ve had mail that is CLEARLY junk e-mail, with its misspelled words in the subject line and odd characters in place of letters, while mail from people in Address Book wind up being tagged as junk mail. Outlook 2007 handles junk mail flawlessly. I don’t mind the separate apps but I do like having all the functionality in one app. I always wondered why Apple didn’t add buttons or other functionality that would make Mail, Address Book and iCal work a little more seamlessly together. It doesn’t need to be one app but at the very least, ways of opening one app from within another would be helpful.

by: Peter

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:51:45 +0000

Whats wrong with Thunderbird!? Its way less memory intensive than Outlook and lets face it any MS product is so bloated you need a super powerful PC just to run it….. and being a PC tard I cant live without those lovely little animated characters (wizards or a dog to search your PC with) to do things!

by: Ricardo

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:30:52 +0000

Does mail supports microsoft exchange?

When setting up the email account, it gives the option but so far have been unable to complete set up

by: Jay

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:02:28 +0000

oops, this is under leopard i am not sure about tiger.

by: Jay

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:01:47 +0000

Did you know you can just open the color palette and click on a color and get your color labels? I just found this out today.
Select your mail.
open the color palette cmd+shft+c
Select a color.

To get rid of a color set it to white.
Also, you can create a set of label colors.
Very easy.

by: davep

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:52:02 +0000

Address book should always be a separate program, and not part of any other. You lost me when you said otherwise.

Perhaps you should go back to windows?

by: Oak

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:40:43 +0000

Thanks for the post and replies! I stumbled upon GhostAction here. BTW, the performance of Entourage was fine on PPC, but it was unbearable on Intels since it’s not yet optimized. Microsoft promises the next release this fall, over a year since Core Duos shipped on Macs.

by: tommactom

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:36:43 +0000

Guys, never have had Your problems with mac and it´s apps neither Apple Mail - working with it ( Mac ) since 1986 without shutdown - o.k. close-to.

Why should I try to import 8ooo mails a day not being able to read more than 80 ! And what for is outlook good than to import viruses not to talk about the normal running problems or how to get started on xp … Man I hope to get 50 yrs old the next few weeks. I wouldn´t have got that old with a gatesmachine ( it takes 5 min get my heart disrythmed and the pc to bag for shutdown ) and will neverever pay a dime for what they call software ( even I neverever would try to get that stuff without paying for it ).
But - keep on with plug & pray. I´m too old for that stuff::: Best wishes from where the wind blows

by: Omar Ferrer

Thu, 24 May 2007 18:27:48 +0000

Does anyone knows about an application like NEO but for Mac’s Mail App?

I read a lot about NEO and apparently is quite good.

Thanks,
Omar.

by: Allen

Mon, 21 May 2007 00:48:18 +0000

Hi Ryan,

Thank God I found your blog here, you save me a lot of trouble. But I can’t figure out how to get the icons from the window environment to my OS, so I don’t have to see the windowXP desktop anymore!

Allen