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pete rock
All,
I am embarrassed to say but I still use Outlook: Mac 2001 exchange
server edition. This is a classic application, indeed it is the only
classic app I still use. Why? Because I have not found any acceptable
alternative to this program. I have tried Entourage several times and I
have found it to be slow, and hard to use. I have a large and complex
email database with dozens of subfolders and thousands of messages.
Whereas Outlook: Mac 2001 can synch quickly and allow offline use, I
have been unable to get Entourage to work in a similar fashion. This is
especially useful if you have a laptop and travel-you can keep an
entire copy of your email/calendar/contacts database and access it when
no internet connectivity is available. Perhaps this is a function of
being a Mac user in a PC environment where no one knows anything about
Outlook: Mac and has little interest in helping with Entourage.
Having said that, I'd like to covert to Entourage so I can stop
worrying about the classic environment and because the application is
clearly a legacy app and the next Mac I buy, presumably an Intel Mac,
won't run classic.
So, any advice? Are there people who are using entourage with an
exchange server? Have you been able to get it to replicate the
functionality of Outlook, especialy working off-line? What did it take
to get it to work properly?
Thanks,
Pete
I am embarrassed to say but I still use Outlook: Mac 2001 exchange
server edition. This is a classic application, indeed it is the only
classic app I still use. Why? Because I have not found any acceptable
alternative to this program. I have tried Entourage several times and I
have found it to be slow, and hard to use. I have a large and complex
email database with dozens of subfolders and thousands of messages.
Whereas Outlook: Mac 2001 can synch quickly and allow offline use, I
have been unable to get Entourage to work in a similar fashion. This is
especially useful if you have a laptop and travel-you can keep an
entire copy of your email/calendar/contacts database and access it when
no internet connectivity is available. Perhaps this is a function of
being a Mac user in a PC environment where no one knows anything about
Outlook: Mac and has little interest in helping with Entourage.
Having said that, I'd like to covert to Entourage so I can stop
worrying about the classic environment and because the application is
clearly a legacy app and the next Mac I buy, presumably an Intel Mac,
won't run classic.
So, any advice? Are there people who are using entourage with an
exchange server? Have you been able to get it to replicate the
functionality of Outlook, especialy working off-line? What did it take
to get it to work properly?
Thanks,
Pete