I switched from Claris Emailer to Entourage over a year ago, and it's gone well.
I'm at a college that uses the MS Exchange Server to handle all email across campus, and I was having one irritating network problem after another trying to hang onto CE. Finally the months of frustration wore me out, and I capitulated. I must say that the campus techies tolerated my Mac obstinance for a good long while, but the technical problems persisted, and they finally, gently, convinced me that my life would be easier using Entourage. I hated to give up CE, but they were right: Entourage has its oddities and clunky aspects, but generally it functions well. It is especially nice to be able to see exactly the same folders and saved email from both home and office. Indeed, while traveling, I can access the Exchange Server and see the very same folders via a web browser. It was very nifty to sit in my hotel lobby in Sweden this summer and be able to read all of my email, both new and old. Importing CE folders into Entourage worked extremely well. My address book also imported well, although the email groups were lost. (Most of them were outdated anyway, so this was no great loss.) In the next few months, I'm going to use DIFfersifer to translate two ancient Hypercard stacks into Filemaker Pro database files. Once that is done, I will no longer be clinging to any Classic apps, and I can then consider moving to OS 10.5. I happily used CE for over a decade, and I regretted giving it up. I still think it's better, on the whole, than Entourage. But at least Entourage works for me reliably, every day. I still subscribe to this list, obviously, although it's clear that the traffic is slowly fading away. And I see that Chris is still chiming in with helpful tips---he saved my CE bacon many times, back in the day. He and the many other knowledgeable CE users on this list helped this 'ancient' piece of software enjoy a longer life than could possibly have been imagined. CE will live forever in our Macintosh hearts! Bob Fowler ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
