Is Apple Mail more stable than Entourage? which mail client do I want?
I can't take Microsoft Entourage (2008) any more - the constant garbling of the enormous single database file (and the database "repairs" which always seem to lose data) are driving me crazy. Our institution is going to upgrade to Exchange 2007 (or perhaps 2010) in a few weeks, and I need to move to a more stable client. I'm running the latest 10.6. Can someone advise me: do I want Apple Mail, Thunderbird, or something else? My criteria are:
1) I need to be able to access the Exchange server's email, Calendar, and Addressbook, but not necessarily with the same application.
2) I have a very large database of emails - 22 Gigs or so, and I need to be able to view and search them all. So,
3) which client will make migration from Entourage easiest/most reliable?
4) which one is the most stable, so that this huge (and growing database) won't get corrupted? It's insane that one bad action can ruin the whole thing. Surely there are clients that store emails separately so that even if something gets damaged, the whole thing isn't munged... Is Apple Mail pretty bulletproof for large databases?
5) is there any way with Apple Mail or anything else to control (or at least see) what gets deleted/copied to the server? With Entourage, I never know whether my stuff is getting deleted off the server or not (no way to specify "1-way sync" or even see a log of what it deleted, like appointments etc.).
Any hints greatly appreciated!
thank you,
Mike Levin
but it doesn't seem possible that 22 GB of that data is live.
Either that, or you get an awful lot of attachments.
it's live in the sense that I search through it often. It's not kept on the server though - most of it is in local folders (which also get trashed when the database gets corrupted). I do get some attachments, and it's emails since 1989 or so.
You have done rebuilds of the database I see, but I don't recall if that
function gets rid of deleted items. When you delete files from the Deleted
Items folder, they don't actually go anywhere. They just get moved to a hidden
So if you've never compressed the data, a very large portion of your Entourage
database could just be old deleted items. Close Entourage and Option+launch it
to get the Database Utility. Use the "Compact database" choice on your file.
This will remove all fully deleted items from the database.
interesting!! I'll try this for sure.
thanks,
Mike
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