Microsoft have finally released an update for Entourage to provide iSync and Spotlight support. It’s been a while but at last the only reasons I haven’t tried Entourage have been solved. And so I’ve switched from Apple’s mediocre Mail to Entourage.
The good – there’s a wide-screen layout, it’s a full group-ware client, its icons aren’t as appalling as those of Tiger Mail.
The bad – I have managed to get it locked up with two modal dialogues…
The main problem is GMail. For some reason the GMail POP access (flakey at the best of times) has decided to not make all my new e-mail accessible. Most of it is, but two messages to date haven’t been. As you can imagine, this is somewhat vexing. And so I’m going the long route to start with – GMail has been reset and all my archived e-mail is downloading freshly into Entourage. Fingers crossed.
The other option is to find a new e-mail provider. I’m not ready to jump to a web client as my main e-mail application – I prefer having spotlight integration of e-mail, offline access and the extra speed of the desktop client. Once Yahoo release their new interface it may worth a look, and with Hotmail (whoops, Windows Live Mail – who comes up with these names?) also revamping the field could well be worth some fresh integration. Or I could even bite the bullet and pay someone for a decent IMAP account…
