Monday, September 16, 2002

Entourage not Mail.app Here's why I'm back to Entourage as my mail ap, rather than Apple's Mail.app. First, after a mysterious, aborted sync with Entourage's new Palm snyc that seemed to destroy random contacts in my Entourage database, I ditched the thing in favor of Mail.app. Quickly I realized a few things. First, Mail.app is really slow. Much slower than Entourage. Second, e-mail formatting is a lot weaker. For those of you who type all your e-mail in lowercase, you could care less but for me, this is important. But most important: when I use Entourage, I keep the files on my laptop. When I'm working at my desktop, I firewire connect my laptop as a slave hard drive to my desktop. With Entourage I can easily use the same mail files. With Mail.app, because of where the files have to reside, in the Library folder, I couldn't figure out how to do the same thing. So, hello Entourage again. Good to be back. Oh, and I'm still using Daylight for contacts and calendar. The calendar is pretty slow but contact management is great and you can select a contact, click "send e-mail" and simply launch Entourage from Daylight. Works for me. 11:24:35 PM

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