I moved directly from Emailer to Entourage 10 and now Entourage 11 and had no trouble importing my Emailer mail database, as far as I can recall. I did have to rebuild all of my "rules" for sorting and handling incoming mail. I think I had to recreate my groups, too. I currently have 18 mail accounts being checked on different schedules, and rarely have any problems.
I have multiple sigs, and you can associate certain sigs with certain accounts. Entourage is scriptable, and some of the same people who wrote the scripts you use with Emailer write scripts for Entourage. I do miss the features of Emailer Tools, but that didn't work for some time prior to abandoning Emailer. I haven't had an AOL account since there were only 6 million AOLers, so I don't miss the benefit of directly checking AOL mail. One advantage/disadvantage (depending on your point of view) is that attachments remain with their respective email message. Another is formatted and HTML mail, even though I have mine set as plain text, and still prefer all my mail to come in that way when I have a choice (Yahoo groups, for example.) The feel and use of Entourage is somewhat similar to Emailer. Maybe because Jud was intimately involved in Entourage's development, as well as Emailer 1. One great feature of Entourage 11 (as delivered with Office 2004) is the "Projects" addition. This might compare with the above mentioned tie-in of Mail with Spotlight. With Projects, you create a project for specific goals, groups, whatever. The examples are all business based, with schedules and meetings, but that doesn't really give you a feel for what it can do. For instance, I do the web pages and newsletter for a British car club. I have a "British Car Club" project, and I tie to it all mail, calendar events and to-dos with the category "LBC", all contacts and groups with that category, my Finder folders and photo folders related to the club, etc. I can drag in clippings and create notes from within the Project. It keeps everything club related together in one place. There are "watch" folders that you can set up to do certain things when something is added or changed. Haven't used that feature yet. And you can have different projects share the same items, so if I have people in my contact list in multiple clubs, they are listed both places. So, now two years later, I have no regrets about switching, although I did at the time. Like many of you, I had (and still have) an emotional attachment to Emailer. I was here from the very beginning with v1, and watched the product develop, and worked with the developers, scripters, and everyone who made it into what it became. That's why I still hang on here, like I'm sure many other switchers do. Oh, and why did I switch? Well, I had Office:mac vX for Word and Excel, and didn't use Entourage for probably more than a year. Then, one by one, my Classic apps went away, until all that was left was Emailer and LetterRip Pro (another Jud Spencer product.) When LRP went beta on the OS X version, I went with it. Went from what was for me a somewhat unstable OS 9 to not rebooting for months at a time. Plus the small type, dated interface, and ISP problems. Hope that helps, Steve ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
