Harry, I'm not a big fan of Mail and the Address Book either, although you will find some in the group extremely happy with them. I use Entourage, part of the Office X suite. I don't think there is a better email/calendar/contacts product out there. Hindsight tells me that you probably should have purchased Office X when you bought your new iBook for the special $199 deal thats going on (until the end of the year).
However, the fixes for your problems are rather simple but I'm guessing that you have 1000 entries in your address book so redoing your groups is something you're trying to avoid. I'm also not aware of any rules import problems. But you must be really unhappy for you to resort to Classic. Try keyword searches for mail and address book at: http://www.macosxhints.com/ The site is full of tips (as well as this user group). Don't give up prematurely until you've exhausted your resources. Ward Oldham On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 01:16 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > I've spent a couple of hours importing mailboxes and addresses into > the mail > application and the address book app. > > And I don't like them. Mail boxes import into a separate folder. I > haven't > found a way to import all my rules. > > The address book sucks! Groups that I set up in OE no longer exist. So > I'm > using OE in classic. > > If anyone know of an OS X mail program that does a better job > ofimporting > mailboxes, addresses, and rules, please let me know. > > Thanks. > > Harry, > > > Harry Jacobson-Beyer > Surveyor of the Passing Scene! > > http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/a/harryjb/ > What a strange, long, trip it is! > > remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how > fast > you go coming down! > > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28 > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
