Gone to the bad

Ceri Davies — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:54:00 +0000

There has been a lot of complaining done about problems with Apple’s Mail.app.

The major annoyances with it for me have been its utter refusal to mark messages as read or to retrieve addresses from our LDAP servers reliably. Since we have a site-wide license for Office, I decided to try Entourage.

Yes, it’s from Microsoft. The secret is this though: on Mac OS X, Office isn’t really, really shit and annoying.

Entourage basically does everything that I want; it has sensible defaults with respect to top-posting (and not doing it) and text formats (plain by default), and can actually mark a message as read once I have read it. LDAP stuff works too.

It did manage to mangle my signature, but that was imported from Mail.app so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt there.

Within Reason: Gone to the bad

Gone to the bad