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An AppleScript to export Entourage emails
Authored by: syko on Feb 16, '04 12:30:36PM

a much better solution would be to ditch the extremely bloated corruptable m$ crap and go to Apple's Mail.

seriously.



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An AppleScript to export Entourage emails
Authored by: CyborgSam on Feb 16, '04 12:57:35PM

Been there, done that. I've tried to convert twice, once with Jaguar, once with Panther. After a few days I went back to Entourage. Right now, I find that Entourage is still more intuitive and a better integrated package than Mail, iCal, and Address Book. I hope Apple's next rev of these apps addresses the major issues raised in forums, press, etc.

I hate M$ too. Remember that Entourage was written by the same folks who brought us Claris Emailer, so it's easy to use, intuitive, etc. Entourage is a rare exception among M$'s offerings. It isn't perfect, but it works all day without crashing or causing major snafus, unlike Word, Excel, et al.



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An AppleScript to export Entourage emails
Authored by: syko on Feb 16, '04 01:01:02PM

intuitive?

an email program is an email program.. how does Apple's Mail program 'fail'?

I've had many clients spend hundreds of dollars so I can 'save' their corrupted databases..

Not only can m$'s database become corrupt at any time it's also EXTREMELY bloated (the database file) AND very slow...

Sure, the interface can be considered 'nice' but with Apple's Mail you've got the best junkmail filtering out there plus an easy to use interface- Apple did make it afterall ;)



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An AppleScript to export Entourage emails
Authored by: rikske on Feb 16, '04 02:36:52PM

You ask hundreds of dollars to your clients for a rebuild ? I give support for 160 Mac's, and never was a database so corrupted that it couldn't be saved by a rebuild. (by pressing just the alt-key during startup of Entourage)



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An AppleScript to export Entourage emails
Authored by: ewelch on Feb 16, '04 06:47:35PM

Another good way to handle it is to get Entourage Email Archive. It's a great program with lots of options for how the handle Entourage Emails. You can find it at Versiontracker.com. When I bought it, it cost $15.

Some of us don't have a choice, we have to use Entourage at work. So this kind of solution is great. All my old emails are now in a Filemaker database. (The author of EEA includes a Filemaker template.)

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Eric

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