Leopard Mail Inconsistent at best - went back to Entourage!

I loaded 10.5 on my PowerBook G4 just after it's release. I migrated to mail 3.0 from Entourage and was pleased that all went well including my Exchange server settings at work but...several emails that have been listed as sent have not been recieved by the recipients (most notably to Comcast accounts). Also many mails sent on my Exchange server have not been received by the recipients. I have tried various fixes, port changes etc. to no avail. It is truly disturbing to THINK that you have sent an email and get no indication that it did not get to the intended recipient. Consequently I have switched back to Entourage as painful as that is. I have tried Apple mail in every OS X release and have yet to get a useable product! Apple, please fix this mess!
PS I have also put 10.5 on 2 G4 iBook's and a MacBook Pro where mail has been equally inconsistent!
Has anyone had a bug free experience with Mail 3.0??

I don't think it has anything to do with the client (Entourage or Mail) that you are using. Once either one "sends" a message, it is gone. Whether or not it ever shows up at the recipient depends on a number of other factors, none of which include the client used to send the message.
One of those "other factors" could be anti-spam systems. It is slightly possible that you mail settings aren't quite the same as the Entourage settings. Usually, though, that would cause Mail not to work at all. It is unlikely (though remotely possible) that the receiving server could detect some slight difference between the message headers and think your message is spam or forged. You will sometimes get rejection responses in these cases. You can always send yourself the same message using both Mail and Entourage and look for any differences (use view as Raw message).
You mentioned that the problem was more common with Comcast recipients. Some big ISPs go overboard on anti-spam system. For example, a spammer sets up shop at a cheap ISP and gets detected and the e-mail server blacklisted. Anyone else who has the misfortune to have had an account at the same ISP might also get blacklisted just because they use the same server. Again, sometimes you will get rejections if this happens. You will have to contact your ISP and have them contact Comcast to get it fixed. I have an account on Dreamhost and this used to happen a couple of times a year. It hasn't happened for a while though.
The bottom line is that e-mail just isn't very reliable. There is certainly nothing wrong with mail that will make it less reliable than any other e-mail client.

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