When I switched the the Mac Operating System in late 2008, I also purchased a copy of Microsoft Office.\u00a0 I don’t use the Office components all that much, but I do use Entourage, the mail client that came with the set up.\u00a0 Microsoft has since abandoned the program in deference to Outlook, which they should have done.\u00a0 I don’t need Outlook exchange services anymore, and I have little need to Microsoft Office.\u00a0 I use LibreOffice when necessary.\u00a0 I’ve given Apple’s iWork suite a try, but I’m not wild about it.\u00a0 I’m upgrading my hardware, and the machine with Entourage installed will become a machine tucked into a corner and used for back up file purposes or if I need an optical drive (it has one; new machines do not — Mac shares these drives over the network very nicely).\u00a0 Long story short, I’m going to have to figure our Mail or find a suitable replacement.<\/p>\n
Replacements all seem geared around GMail, which is nice, but I use a lot more than GMail. Now, if they mean they have similar features to GMail, that might be worth pursuing. I can’t tell from reading about them.<\/p>\n
I have all my email addresses coming into Entourage.\u00a0 They all feed into a common inbox.\u00a0 I have rules set up that autofiles certain emails to where they belong, and I read them there. I have a lot of subfolders and subfolders of subfolders in my Entrourage box.\u00a0 When I read email on my Air, I read on Mail, and each account has a folder under the inbox, and I read from there.\u00a0 I’ve not created any subfolders (can I even do that?).\u00a0 Mail seems very interested in “Smart Folders” which seem to be virtual folders.\u00a0 I’ve been very leery of such things in the past and haven’t really explored what it might be able to do for me.\u00a0 Might now be the time?\u00a0 Perhaps I should learn more about OS X Mail and give it a chance.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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