Switching from entourage / how create categories ?

Hello,
I'm just switching from entourage and I miss the categories management, very usefull to build criteria to select and classify mails. I can't work with the group's agenda, because some categories is relative to a project or an subject.
Somebody solves this kind of management problem ?
thankx.

I similarly just switched to Mail.app from Entourage and also miss the categories. I downloaded MailTags, but it seems very complicated for what I'm looking for.
Is there a way that I can apply a single rule to an email (or selected group) simply by right-clicking? A simply half-section command is all I'm looking for.
Does that make sense? Just looking for some super-easy way to categorise my emails and sort them by colour, without having to click through five levels of menus or setting up a super-complex rule that will surely leave out any email from strangers.

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I run an occasional newsletter in email format. Because the list is very large, it wouldn't make sense to set up individual vCards for each individual email address on the list, and yet that seems to be the only way to email all the members of a group using Mail and Address Book.
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I am tired of the slowness of Entourage and was thinking of switching to all of the native mac programs. Any suggestions or comments on whether this is a good idea or not?
Also, will all of my information be duplicated. I have about 3 gigs of information and I don't want to needlessly store it if I don't need to. Can I get some advice on where to find and extract that information from the entourage program so I am not eating up disc space unnecessarily.
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Three weeks ago I switched from Entourage and Palm Desktop to Apple mail, address book and ical. It was a tad painful because I ended up with a lot of duplicates as I had email and some contact info in Entourage and several thousand contacts in Palm Desktop.
However after a couple of solid nights sorting out the duplicates all the contact info for each person is now in one place.
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Also the check for duplicates option in address book might be great for some but for me it created contacts that had their addresses and phone numbers duplicated several times.
After initial teething problems (getting used to the different programs) I am now pretty happy with the changeover. I am ecstatic to not be seeing the constant Entourage error message of 'your database is damaged and needs to be rebuilt' which entourage kept throwing at me (even after repeated rebuilds).
I have a Palm Treo and Address Book and iCal sync fine with that as well (after installing the conduit).
You'll also find in mail that you can't do as much snazzy formatting as you could with Entourage (ie numbered lists and bullet points) but hopefully Apple will address that in later updates. In the meantime if I'm desperate for formatting I write the email in rtf and paste it across complete with bluet points.
Sorry to drone on but wanted to give you some moral support.
Oh by the way the entourage data is stored in Home folder - Documents - Microsoft User Data - Office 2004 Identities - main identity - database (almost need a compass and flashlight to find it). To be on the safe side burn it to a dvd just in case and then trash it and all it's little friends (rules, lists, signatures and the other main identity folders.
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Philip if you can't find your answer in this forum try the Snow Leopard forum, Mail is considered part of OS X so you may have luck there.
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Thanks for your reply.
If I have imported my addressbook and emails from Entourage into Apple mail, is that the same thing has backing up my Entourage data as you suggested? Or is there something else I'm not aware of that should be backed up. All I have ever used Entourage for is email and addressbook. Entourage has also been automatically backing up up on iDisk.
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You're going to need to stop Entourage from getting
email from that account.
Open Entourage.
Go to the Entourage menu.
You can then select and delete the account.
Note: You should consider backing up your Entourage
data just in case you change your mind.
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I think I'd like to start using Mail again...
Is there an EASY way of getting all my messages over to Mail, as well as my address book, all of which is in Entourage. (I POP my gmail, deleting Gmails copy once its accessed on my mac, so setting up the accounts isnt a problem.)
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If this doesn't work, create a folder on the Desktop named contacts or whatever you prefer. Do the same with all Entourage contacts but click on and drag the selected contacts to the folder on the Desktop which will create a copy of each contact as an individual vCard file within the folder.
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I think I found the folder for MAIL, but I cant seem to find
the folder where all the Entourage messages are kept. I'd
like to backup all my data.
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Go to Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist. Copy the com.apple.mail.plist file and place the copy on your backup .
Done with backing up Mail.
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Greetings,
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If I am sending an e-mail of some length it looks
as if it sends, goes into my sent box, but is never
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I don't understand this. What does CC have to do with it?
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Apple : Please help me on this, because it is a very
bothersome problem and one that I don't think is easy
to pinpoint the cause of.
If you really want Apple to help you on this, you've chosen the wrong way to request it.
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No, Mail in 10.4 is not crap; it's actually better and more reliable than Mail in 10.5. So here's what I would do, though this will not preserve any folder hierarchy--you'd have to manually do that:
1. In your Panther Mail program, choose an account, a mailbox (Inbox for this example), and Select All messages in that mailbox.
2. Choose Save As… and choose Raw Message Source from the dialog window, then choose a destination (your Desktop) and save the file as Inbox.mbox.
3. After that file is saved, go to your Desktop and create two new folders: one named Inbox and the other named Mailbox.
4. Put the Inbox.mbox file inside the Mailbox folder, and the Mailbox folder inside the Inbox folder. Copy the nested folder/file to the Tiger machine if necessary so you can access it from Tiger Mail.
5. Open Tiger Mail, choose File >Import Mailboxes…, select Other from the list of import options, then navigate to the Inbox folder and select Choose. The file Inbox.mbox should appear in the window; click Continue and wait for the import to finish. You can then move the Inbox messages out of the Import folder to wherever you like in Tiger Mail.
6. Rinse and repeat for your other mailboxes, changing the names of nested folders/files as necessary.
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