[iluvmypowerbook]

Office 2004 is a great package, perhaps a much needed improvement.

But considering the release of Tiger next year and the improved integration of Apple apps will those of you using Entourage come back to Mail.

What do you prefer and why?

[moonmonkey]

Originally posted by iluvmypowerbook:
Office 2004 is a great package, perhaps a much needed improvement.

But considering the release of Tiger next year and the improved integration of Apple apps will those of you using Entourage come back to Mail.

What do you prefer and why?

Mail does the Job for me.

I use Outlook at work so its nice to have a change when I come home.
Tiger mail has a few more features like smart folders and HTML creation, but its not that different.

[drive-thru]

Used to use Entourage v.X because I bought Office with my mac. I found it was way too bulky for what I wanted: a simple Mail app.
So I went with Mail - much simpler, better interface and much quicker to load.

[yskar]

Try Gyazmail.
It's simple and fast, and easy to use. Shareware $18, but you have 40 days' trial period. A very good e-mail software. Cocoa app.

[Maflynn]

I use mail.app but not because its from apple. I think it is a better application. Now that office 2004 is out, it seems entourage has been updated and I'll look at switching over on that again.

[-Q-]

As the poll said, Mail just doesn't cut it for me. I had too many small annoyances with mail to make it worth using. And with the new 3-pane view in Entourage 2004, I prefer it even more.

I wish Entourage had the address book integration Mail does, but it's not so important that I'll stop using Entourage.

[philcozz]

I'm currently back to GyazMail after a visit to mail.app. I do like the idea of smart folders in the next version of mail, so that will certainly get a try. I have Entourage, but I just like the elegance of GyazMail... I have yet to find a "perfect" e-mailer (assuming such a thing exists). There are some features of mail that I wish GyazMail had, but after trying virtually all of them (including Thunderbird, GNUMail, SweetMail, etc.) I always end up back with GyazMail.

[chris v]

I used to use Eudora and Now Contact, but that was really just a bad habit from my OS 9 days. I have a bluetooth phone, a machine at home, at work and a portable, and I keep the address books all synced, which makes life easy in that regard. So, mainly due to integration and syncing with address Book, I'm using Mail these days.

I've got Office 2001, but truth be known, I've never launched Entourage.

[OptimusG4]

Originally posted by philcozz:
I'm currently back to GyazMail after a visit to mail.app. I do like the idea of smart folders in the next version of mail, so that will certainly get a try. I have Entourage, but I just like the elegance of GyazMail... I have yet to find a "perfect" e-mailer (assuming such a thing exists). There are some features of mail that I wish GyazMail had, but after trying virtually all of them (including Thunderbird, GNUMail, SweetMail, etc.) I always end up back with GyazMail.

As soon as GyazMail implements IMAP support, I'll be switching over but its Mail for me currently.

[nickm]

Pine forever!

[cpac]

Originally posted by Maflynn:
I use mail.app but not because its from apple. I think it is a better application. Now that office 2004 is out, it seems entourage has been updated and I'll look at switching over on that again.

I've looked at Entourage 2004, and I still think Mail is a better application.

[Luca Rescigno]

Webmail most of the time, for Gmail and for my secondary, U of MN email address. I also link my U of MN email to Mail.app on my Mac and to Thunderbird on my PC. No Outlook/Entourage for me, stupid thing has no useful spam filtering.

[Zimphire]

I use Apple mail because it reminds me of Clarus Em@iler. Then I use Gmail.

[mac15]

Mail works great for me, 4 accounts one of them being IMAP (.Mac) and it sits running in my dock all the time.

[cszar2001]

Mail - does everything I want and more.

[hudson1]

GyazMail is worthless for me because of it's lack of IMAP support. The reason for this glaring omission, I've heard, is that the developer doesn't use IMAP himself and so hasn't bothered trying to add it to the application. Explanations like this make me think that GyazMail is some kind of hobby excercise instead of a serious application. The obvious "shilling" for the product on VersionTracker rubs me the wrong way, too.

Whether one uses IMAP or not, how can a bona fide e-mail client not support it in 2004?

I've been sticking with Apple's Mail and find that the lack of HTML support in sent messages is the only defect. It doesn't come into play very much except when trying to forward received messages that contain HTML code. Mail has a tendency to recode the whole thing as some big TIFF-like file and the results are bad (up to 10X expansion of file size).

[drainyoo]

Originally posted by yskar:
Try Gyazmail.
It's simple and fast, and easy to use. Shareware $18, but you have 40 days' trial period. A very good e-mail software. Cocoa app.

It looks like the Mail app. Whats the point?

[ReggieX]

Eudora. I've used it since my first Quadra, and don't see any reason to replace it.
Mail.app I use for unimportant mail addresses.