Microsoft Managed My Mail (or “How to Use Lots of M’s in a Headline”)
I moved from Entourage to Mac Mail so I’d have better integration with iCal and Address Book.
So far, so good. I’m not really missing Entourage a whole lot, but there’s one thing that leaves me pining:
Mac Mail provides no easy way to save sent messages to folders, aside from going to the Sent Mail folder after sending, then dragging messages to their respective folders for safe keeping. As you compose an email in Entourage, you have access to a pull-down that says, “After sending, move message to [insert folder name here].”
Once Entourage sends the email, you can be confident that it is saved in the proper folder. Maybe it’s the anal-retentiveness in me, but I like to take care of my organization on the front end, not after the fact. Going back to a Sent Items folder just seems old school to me.
By the way, the reason I’m migrating apps is that I have a new MacBook Pro (replacing a PowerMac G4) and I figured I’d do a fresh start with the native Mac apps and stop leaning on the folks in Redmond. Well, lemme tell ya: the Apple Migration Assistant totally failed me, but that’s another story for another time.