I thought I'd take advantage of a lull during the holiday break to reconfigure the way my mail works. Tod's been wanting to do this for months and since I'll be travelling for almost a month starting in the next few weeks, it makes sense to use IMAP--where all the mail is stored on the server, giving me access to the exact same set up from my desktop or laptop or any other computer I care to use.
Except that I use Entourage as my mail client. It's a Microsoft product that I've really been satisfied with--up until now. Entourage and IMPA do not play nicely. It took hours to figure out simple things like moving my folders over to the server. I currently have 1327 messages in my "work" folder. I should have about 800. And to add insult to injury, it's really, really lsow. The I in IMAP stands for Instant but not if you're using Entourage.
Argh!!!
maybe the "i" is for irritating...
Eew Microsoft. I've been using the Mail.app that comes with OSX for a few weeks now and I really like it, it should do IMAP, unless of course you dont like Mail... :)
I don't like the way Mail handles attachments - and when you get as many as I do it's not a good thing.
Mail.app kicked ass in 1993 and it's still OK, but I don't like iCal, iAddressBook or whatever Apple calls it. I've grown so fond of Entourage's well-designed integrated interface for scheduling and contacts as well as mail. Unfortunatley, it's all superficial. Underneath, Entourage is a typical Microsoft disaster particularly when it come to processing IMAP.
Lucky for me, devin has agreed to install a new IMAP server for us. One that reportedly works better with the big E. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Call me old fashioned but pine really is a great way to read mail. Apart from when I am in Japan.
I could not find a net cafe type thing in Japan that had port 23 open! Even my friend who had a dialup account with gol (I think that was it) could not telnet or ssh. It was rather a pain.