Compare Entourage v Mac Mail Question

In MS Entourage's address book, you can assign a category to a name and color code it. Then names appear in their assigned color you can sort by category. This gives me a fast way to pick out or sort specific groups.
I've been using Entourage and would like to switch to mail, but this feature in Entourage is very important to the way I work and keep track of groups.
Color coding also appears in the message list in mail. I can the quickly see if a rule has not worked or if it inadvertently placed the message in the wrong mailbox.
Am I overlooking something in Mail that will let me do the same or similar action.

Hi Robin,
That's the way it is on y 10.5.8 Mac, only boxes in the "On My Mac" section are ones I created that don't exist elsewhere.

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Exporting from Entourage to Mac Mail

I have a large Entourage inbox. Thousands of Emails. When I try to export from Entourage everything seems to work fine. But, when I import, only about a third come through. Is there a sure fire way to get all emails from Entourage to Mac Mail. I am using Mountain Lion.

Alex,
This thread is getting unbelievably messy for what originally was such a simple question. Nowhere did I say that the procedure I suggested was meant for a particular type of account or mailbox. It allows any messages to be exported in standard mbox format. It’s Stanley who mentioned IMAP as an alternative procedure to transfer mail between mail clients, and what I said in the post you’re replying to is precisely that IMAP has nothing to do with what I was talking about...
What does “suitable for archiving” mean? If you have any questions that have nothing to do with the problem of transferring mail from Mail to Entourage, which is what we’re supposed to be talking about here, please either find a thread that discusses the same questions or start a new topic to properly discuss them in their own thread instead of hijacking someone else’s thread. Here is a recent example of such a thread:
Archiving emails

.mac mail question:I have an old emac without an intel chip...

.mac mail question:I have an old emac without an intel chip...I have a .mac email account, I would like to be able to have my emails automatically forwarded to a gmail account. I cannot access icloud with this old machine, any ideas? thanks! and aloha!

Hello,
But you can setup iCloud email on you old Mac!
Do not delete the old account yet. sign up for an iCloud account if you haven't.
I understand .mac mail will still come through. Do not delete the old account yet.
You cannot use .mac or MobileMe as type of Account, you have to choose IMAP when setting up, otherwise Mail is hard coded to change imap.mail.me.com to mail.me.com & smtp.mail.me.com to smtp.me.com, no matter what you try to enter.
iCloud Mail setup, do not choose .mac or MobileMe as type, but choose IMAP...
On second step where it asks "Description", it has to be a unique name, but you can still use your email address.
IMAP (Incoming Mail Server) information:
• Server name: imap.mail.me.com
• SSL Required: Yes
• Port: 993
• Username: [email protected] (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)
• Password: Your iCloud password
SMTP (outgoing mail server) information:
• Server name: smtp.mail.me.com
• SSL Required: Yes
• Port: 587
• SMTP Authentication Required: Yes
• Username: [email protected] (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)
• Password: Your iCloud password
Also, you must upgrade your password to meet the new criteria: 8 characters, including upper and lower case and numbers. If you have an older password that does not meet these criteria, when you try to setup mail on your mac, using all of the IMAP criteria listed above, it will still give a server error message. Go to http://appleid.apple.com then follow directions to change your password, then go back to setting up your mail using the IMAP instructions above.
Thanks to dpepper...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3867171?tstart=0

How do I move group lists from Entourage to Mac Mail

Does anyone know a way to import a group mailing list from Entourage into Mac Mail? Entourage says something about exporting to a note first but I’m lost. Any light anyone could shed would be appreciated.
Thanks,
John

Does Entourage export as CSV (comma separated vars)? You can import that file format into Contacts.

Moving from Entourage to Mac Mail

Hey All,
I'm moving all of my mail accounts over to mac mail so that when the time comes that I have my iPhone (few months hopefully) all my mail will go to the mac mail app, and thus to my phone as well.
First is there a way I can move all of my messages that i have saved from Entourage over to mail (without forwarding each individual one) AND i can't figure out how to create folders. I can make a smart mailbox, but I'm trying to create a folder so that, for instance, when my boss sends me an email, i can move it to the folder, so that I can save it. OR even have a rule set so that messages from my boss go to that folder. I was able to do it in entourage, i'm just wondering if i can in mail?

For import, read this apple article http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/2.0/en/ml807.html
For creating folder read this apple article http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/2.0/en/ml611.html
Hope this helps.

Changing from microsoft entourage to mac mail 7.2 ?

Is there a way to switch from Microsoft Entourage 2008, Version 12.3.5 [latest installed update v 12.3.6] to Mac Mail 7.2 and keep all my mailboxes and contacts?
John Modder

Open Entourage, drag the email account folder to the desktop of your Mac, this will produce an .mbox file. Import that file into Mail (File>Import)
Theoretically your folder structure should be intact, realistically it may not be.

Iphoto will suddently only use entourage, NOT Mac Mail

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My iPhoto(5) has suddenly started using entourage for the email function even though I do not use entourage as my regular mail app. I use the Mac Mail app and have never used entourage and when I went to the prefs in iPhoto to change the email app, it wouldn't let me check Mac Mail(it was shaded out) I've never had this problem before. I haven't made any major changes on my ibook at all so I'm at a complete loss. Any help would be appreciated.
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Ahrum

Thanks!! I would like to use mac mail...but I am getting frustrated with it. initially I couldn't get it to send either from mac account or pop account although it would receive from both. I received the smtp error message other threads are reporting. I solved the mac mail issue thanks to another thread (changing the port to 587), but I have tried several of the fixes found on my POP account to no avail...receive but won't send. I suppose I could stop using my POP account and just use the mac account...but that would require admitting defeat I've only been a mac user for weeks and I'm totally sold on it....figured out everything but this so far.....

Mac Mail question - [Bulk]

Why do some of my emails come in as [Bulk] mail? They are from someone I know, and not from a website or company.

Hello,
But you can setup iCloud email on you old Mac!
Do not delete the old account yet. sign up for an iCloud account if you haven't.
I understand .mac mail will still come through. Do not delete the old account yet.
You cannot use .mac or MobileMe as type of Account, you have to choose IMAP when setting up, otherwise Mail is hard coded to change imap.mail.me.com to mail.me.com & smtp.mail.me.com to smtp.me.com, no matter what you try to enter.
iCloud Mail setup, do not choose .mac or MobileMe as type, but choose IMAP...
On second step where it asks "Description", it has to be a unique name, but you can still use your email address.
IMAP (Incoming Mail Server) information:
• Server name: imap.mail.me.com
• SSL Required: Yes
• Port: 993
• Username: [email protected] (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)
• Password: Your iCloud password
SMTP (outgoing mail server) information:
• Server name: smtp.mail.me.com
• SSL Required: Yes
• Port: 587
• SMTP Authentication Required: Yes
• Username: [email protected] (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)
• Password: Your iCloud password
Also, you must upgrade your password to meet the new criteria: 8 characters, including upper and lower case and numbers. If you have an older password that does not meet these criteria, when you try to setup mail on your mac, using all of the IMAP criteria listed above, it will still give a server error message. Go to http://appleid.apple.com then follow directions to change your password, then go back to setting up your mail using the IMAP instructions above.
Thanks to dpepper...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3867171?tstart=0

Scrambled copy of Entourage to Mac Mail

Hi, I copied my Entourage mail across to MacMail. The hosted account (I pay for) has been scrambled on the way in-mail older than a few months has content that doesn't match the sender/receiver/date. Searching turns up wrong emails, so I have to go back to Entourage to find anything. Can I fix this?
I am running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5
Thanks.

Thank you Eric and Csound1 for your replies.
Rather than it being naivety, I had forgotten that the purchase of a new system doesn't mean the end of expenditure. Therefore, I'm doing all I can to eliminate any expense I can do without.
So, no doubt Emailchemy could help, but I decided to give the old Mac another go and try to save on the 30 bucks. One of Eric's links led me to something I hadn't tried before (kernel panics were happening on startup, even before reaching login) and so I tried to startup in Single User mode – Mac OS X: How to start up in single-user or verbose mode – when I then did a safe boot, I managed to log in long enough to do an export of my Entourage mailboxes.
...the Mac Pro crashed soon after. But, still, now I have my emails back!
Thanks.
T.

How do i change my default mail client from entourage to mac mail

currently when i launch a address from the address book it opens entourage and i would like it to open my os x mail client. how do i do this.

Mail > Preferences > General > Default Email Reader

Mac Mail question.

Hi, I am not sure this belongs in this discussion, if not I apologize for the incorrect post
I was wondering if anyone knows of an app or plugin type of program that will display the number of unread emails in teh dock/toolbar as outlook for windows does? It gets to be a pain always having to move my mouse down to the dock for the icons to pop up and to see if there is a little red circle in the mail icon that tells me how many messages I have to read. I also liked the quick notifier feature that outlook offers, I am using Herald 1.3.2, which is nice notifier and has plenty of custom features.
but the one thing that would be really nice is to always have that little reminder in the dock (or toolbar like windows offers) that tells you how many unread emails you have waiting for you. I could leave the dock up and not have it slide down, but I dont want to give up that screen space for that simple notification.
thanks for any information.. I hope that question makes sense and there is something out there, or maybe there is a setting I have missed in mail.app.
Chris

Try moving the dock to the right side of the screen, and make it small-ish. You won't miss the screen space over there very much, most likely, and then the badge will remain visible. If that's not a satisfactory solution, I'm sure there's a third-party solution for showing your unread mail count, but I don't know what that might be.

Really simple Mac Mail question about the Delete button

When at a message, the Edit menu shows Command+Delete as being the proper keystroke for deleting a message.
Just pressing Delete also removes it from the Inbox.
What is different between that and Command+Delete?
Thanks,
doug

Hi,
I don't have a very good answer to you other than the fact that the Macbook does not have a proper DELETE-button. You delete by pressing cmd/backspace.
If you want to delete something through Finder you have to press cmd/backspace. In orher programs, like Mail, you can delete by pressing only backspace. In iPhoto you can delete pictures by presing backspace and conform with return.
The reason for these different solutins are not known to me...
Nils

"Sync" Mac Mail on 2 Macs?

Is there any way to ONLY display emails in the Mac Mail inbox which are CURRENTLY on the server?
I am desperately trying to convert from MS Entourage to Mac Mail on my iMac at the office and another iMac at home. I use the same email account for both work and personal activites, and I generally process the work emails on the office iMac but leave my personal emails until I get home on my personal iMac.
Entourage can be config'ed so that the emails stay on the server until you delete them from your message window. Also, when you have the email set up to "allow online access", then the only emails listed are those currently still on the server. Any other emails that were downloaded/deleted previously by EITHER computer are omitted as the list updates on BOTH computers. This means that when I loaded a bunch of emails yesterday on both of my computers (work and office) and then process a few of yesterday's emails while I'm at the office TODAY, when I get home and 'reload' the messages on the server today, only the unprocessed emails (ie, emails still on the server) are displayed, while the ones I processed/deleted earlier today at the office are then omitted from the listing I get when I re-get mail on my home computer.
Mac Mail seems to work differently, however, and so after I process emails at work and delete them from my inbox, they still stay in the inbox in my computer at home, which obviously can be very confusing/cumbersome when trying to figure out which emails I've already processed vs. which need to be deleted from the inbox. Since I deal with dozens of emails each day, it's hard to manually determine which emails I processed at work earlier today so that I can delete them AGAIN on my home computer.
And so (again) the bottom line question is this:
Is there any way to ONLY have the emails listed in the Mac Mail inbox which have not yet been deleted from the server?
Thanks so much for any suggestions (which I hope do not recommend iCloud or any other remote services).
-Phil.

On the PoweBook, I can't figure out how to add these accounts
to the Sent folder like in 10.3.9.
You can't do so manually. All account mailboxes under In, Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk in the mailboxes drawer are (or should be) created automatically by Mail when the function is used by the account.
Have you sent messages with all accounts on the PB?
The synchronize function is for a .Mac or IMAP type account only. This does not apply to POP type accounts since incoming messages are downloaded from the server only. A POP account's Inbox mailbox in Mail or with any email client cannot be synchronized with the server.
I access a .Mac type account, two IMAP type accounts along with two POP type accounts with Tiger Mail. Under Mailbox via the menu bar, I have a "Synchronize All Accounts" and a "Synchronize" with an available selection for my .Mac type account or my two IMAP type accounts only since the synchronize function is not available for and can't be used with a POP type account.

Password issues with Mac Mail-help!

I created a new email account through my internet provider (Comcast) and I can no longer access my email although it is showing up on webmail. The comcast person said I would probably have to change my password. I tried doing this on Mac Mail but there doesn't appear to be the usual place to type in new password and then confirm. I am not sure what password they are asking for. The mail account was set up so long ago that I have never used any password when checking my account. I also notice if I delete the password, the password dots are back when I open preferences up again. I don't understand this and Comcast will not help with Mac Mail questions. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You said you never used a password when checking you mail. You must have a password on the account, I don't see how you couldn't.
When you go to www.comcast.net and go to the webmail client, you must enter your username and password in order to get your messages. It's this username & password that Apple Mail requires in order to access your email.
If you want/need to change your password, you can do this at www.comcast.net from within the webmail client. When you are at your inbox on the webclient, on the left side of the screen there is a link for "Preferences". Clicking that will take you to another page and one of the options is "Change Your Password". That's where you would go to change your password for that specific email account.
Good luck,
Bronson

Mac mail not happy on one pop account

I have two email accounts and one won't check with mac mail, but works okay in entourage.
The problem is that one works all the time, the other is intemitent (even in entourage). The one that works only so so is checked via netmail frequently and the family member who uses it noticed that neither entourage nor mac mail was getting emails that were sent and checked online. Now, entourage has started working again as expected (for the last few days) and mac mail won't get anything.
I have deleted and resetup the account a few times, so I know it isn't a password issue, esp since I don't get a password error. The ISP is verizon.
Any ideas? Is it possible they the ISP is marking them as "no, don't let the old 10.3 mac mail have these." I've noticed that their webmail doesn't work with the Safari in 10.3.9, nice one guys.

Hello Paul.
Are both email accounts that you access with the Mail.app and with Entourage provided by Verizon or is only the one that is intermittent provided by Verizon?
The one that works only so so is checked via netmail frequently
and the family member who uses it noticed that neither entourage
nor mac mail was getting emails that were sent and checked online.
No email client will get messages that were sent online with an account that is accessed as a POP type account with an email client unless you include the account's email address in the Cc: or Bcc: fields when addressing the message online so the sent message is also received by the account when checked for new messages by the email client.
What is the setting for the account in Entourage for removing messages from the server when downloaded?
Is it possible they the ISP is marking them as "no, don't let the
old 10.3 mac mail have these."
This is not possible.
I've noticed that their webmail doesn't work with the Safari
in 10.3.9, nice one guys.
How does it not work?
Have you tried emptying the Safari cache?
If not, at the Safari menu bar, go to Safari and select Empty Cache and wait several minutes. Quit and relaunch Safari and try to access the account again via webmail.

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