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!!!
Posted by kuri at January 02, 2003 11:59 PMmaybe the “i” is for irritating…
Posted by: gomichild on January 3, 2003 02:16 AMEew 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… :)
Posted by: Mike on January 3, 2003 02:36 AMI don’t like the way Mail handles attachments - and when you get as many as I do it’s not a good thing.
Posted by: gomichild on January 3, 2003 10:05 PMMail.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.
Posted by: kuri on January 3, 2003 10:36 PMCall 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.
Posted by: Tancred on January 6, 2003 09:43 PM