[DM-MUG] Entourage issue

[William Schoenenberger]

I agree. The only reason I use Entourage is the work email server is  
Exchange. Home account is accessed via Mail.

William


William Schoenenberger
Des Moines, IA
wjschoenenberger at qwest.net


On Dec 12, 2008, at 10:05 PM, Jon Thompson wrote:

> There is no need to use a "supported" email program, and they appear  
> to not support mac email clients at all.  However, email is based on  
> standards, meaning that you can use whatever client you are familiar  
> with.  Qwest even has setup pages for "unsupported" email clients...
>
> http://www.qwest.com/internethelp/email/entourage.html
>
>
> I would recommend against entourage, and toward Apple mail.   
> Entourage stores all of your mail in one giant file, which means  
> that each backup takes the space of that file each time you backup.   
> Plus if you have a corruption of that file, you are potentially out  
> your data.
>
> Apple mail makes each email a separate file, so it is much less  
> likely to have a catastrophic failure.
>
> -- 
> - Jon
> On Dec 12, 2008, at 9:08 PM, William Schoenenberger wrote:
>
>> Doug
>>
>> I use Entourage and have DSL.
>>
>> DSL does not care what email program you use.
>>
>> William
>> William Schoenenberger
>> Des Moines, IA
>> wjschoenenberger at qwest.net
>>
>>
>> On Dec 12, 2008, at 8:08 PM, treeguy at crosspaths.net wrote:
>>
>>> I just switched to Qwest DSL. I just learned that Qwest does not  
>>> support
>>> the above email program. Is there a simple tweak that will make them
>>> friendly or do I need to purchase Outlook Express 6 for the Mac  
>>> (10.4.11)
>>>
>>> Doug Blakely
>>>
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