Missing features

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Walt Atwood

Here are (what I believe to be) some worthwhile, common sense features
missing from Entourage X:


1: The "Mail & News Preferences" should offer another option for saving sent
mail. Instead of just saving *all* messages that are sent, there should be
an option that allows a user to click a "Send and Save" in the Sent Items
folder. In this way, only those messages dispatched with "Send and Save"
would be recorded in the Sent Items folder. All others would be sent but not
recorded.

2: Make Entourage, iCal and Palm PDAs work together seamlessly. You should
be be to sync all three, use iCal to set up web-calendars and e-mail
announcements (the later via Entourage) and carry it in your pocket via
Palm.

3: There should be an Applescript setup (or perhaps a built-in Entourage
mechanism) where spam could be reported, including the long headers, to the
user's ISP, and/or the gov't, and/or the source ISP with an easy-to-setup
interface. The spam itself and the sent spam could then be automatically
deleted.

4: I'm not sure, but I do not think that Office can be updated via the
Software Update pane in System Preferences. If not, why not? (I understand
that some users, especially IT managers in some organizations, would prefer
to download installers from the Web or FTP servers. Apple offers both
options for its software.)



These are just some ideas I thought I would post before sending them to the
Microsoft Wish e-mail address. Comments?

--WA
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]

Walt Atwood said:
4: I'm not sure, but I do not think that Office can be updated via the
Software Update pane in System Preferences. If not, why not? (I understand
that some users, especially IT managers in some organizations, would prefer
to download installers from the Web or FTP servers. Apple offers both
options for its software.)
Click to expand...

I don't know any thrid party application that can be updated through the
Software Update mechanism (Except IE, but I think that was part of a
special "deal"). I'm not sure Apple opened it to third party software
developers.

Corentin
 
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Barry N. Wainwright

Here are (what I believe to be) some worthwhile, common sense features
missing from Entourage X:


1: The "Mail & News Preferences" should offer another option for saving sent
mail. Instead of just saving *all* messages that are sent, there should be
an option that allows a user to click a "Send and Save" in the Sent Items
folder. In this way, only those messages dispatched with "Send and Save"
would be recorded in the Sent Items folder. All others would be sent but not
recorded.
Click to expand...

You could do this with categories and outgoing mail rules.

Set up a 'Don't Keep Copies' category, and assign it ot a message when you
compose it, then set up a mail rule in the 'outgoing tab' to delete any
message in that category. The outgoing rules run after the item is sent, so
the copy will be deleted.
2: Make Entourage, iCal and Palm PDAs work together seamlessly. You should
be be to sync all three, use iCal to set up web-calendars and e-mail
announcements (the later via Entourage) and carry it in your pocket via
Palm.
Click to expand...

Entourage and the Palm do work together well. Syncing with iCal is a little
more problematical since both apps handle things differently. Entourage has
a much larger subset of data that it would need to 'find places for' in
iCal. Also, if MS put a lot of time and effort into providing this
functionality, it could be broken very easily in the next iCal upgrade that
comes along. That's a lot of wasted resource for the MBU.
3: There should be an Applescript setup (or perhaps a built-in Entourage
mechanism) where spam could be reported, including the long headers, to the
user's ISP, and/or the gov't, and/or the source ISP with an easy-to-setup
interface. The spam itself and the sent spam could then be automatically
deleted.
Click to expand...

Who/where to report spam varies from country to country & ISP to ISP. There
are several spamcop and associated/similar scripts at
4: I'm not sure, but I do not think that Office can be updated via the
Software Update pane in System Preferences. If not, why not? (I understand
that some users, especially IT managers in some organizations, would prefer
to download installers from the Web or FTP servers. Apple offers both
options for its software.)
Click to expand...

It can't be, simply because this is Apples service and uses Apples servers.
The only none-Apple app that could use this service was Internet Explorer,
when it was provided as the preferred web browser for new macs.


--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the Entourage FAQ pages? - Check them out:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>

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