Comments on: Goodbye Thunderbird, Hello Entourage 2008

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:04:27 +0000

Yes, you can do that, but you can’t link a word like Google.

By: Kitty

Kitty — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:26:22 +0000

To insert a hyperlink in Entourage 2008, just type your link like this:

You can’t make the text blue or underlined before you send it, but it appears correct and works as you expect when someone receives it.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:45:50 +0000

Hello Karen

Drag the mbox files into Entourage’s sidebar where other local folders are located. I think it’s called ‘On My Computer’

The address book one I’m not to sure about right now, I may have to look into it.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:12:29 +0000

Hi there,

I’m trying to make the conversion from Thunderbird to Entourage, but a couple questions. I tried to rename and drag Thunderbird folders to .mbx, and drag into Entourage, but I’m not sure exactly WHERE in Entourage (e.g. in the actual open application, or into the application file under Finder??), Also, in Outlook address book, you can display Card view, which for me works better than a linear view, but I can’t figure out how to do that in Entourage. (I’m kind of a PCer, converting to Mac, but still hanging onto MS apps…possibly dangerous)

By: Scott Moore

Scott Moore — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:35:59 +0000

I cannot believe that I can’t insert a hyperlink in Entourage, and forwarding destroys hyperlinks. This is more than a bug. This is just brain dead. MS loses this round.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:22:29 +0000

Thanks Thomas.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:14:15 +0000

Dave. All I did was add .mbx to all my Thunderbird mailboxes and then drug them into Entourage and it all imported. No conversion to text. Additionally, I only lasted in Entourage for a few weeks at the most. Back to Thunderbird.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:40:37 +0000

How did the import from Thunderbird to Entourage go? I found a painful manual process (add “.mbx” to all mailboxes, run script that changes all .mbx files to TEXT files, import into Entourage *1* mailbox at a time).

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:36:18 +0000

Mail.app does do that better than any other email app I’ve come across.

By: carlivar

carlivar — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:17:55 +0000

I hate the way Entourage displays threads, I mean, Conversations. It is completely inferior to the awesome Mail.app thread view (which summarizes data of most recent mail in a thread, or doesn’t display a whole thread at all if there is only one message in it).

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:03:03 +0000

It was an issue for me with Office 2004 and I can’t believe it hasn’t been addressed!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:20:53 +0000

I Totally Agree.

By: tedster

tedster — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:59:22 +0000

Unbelievably stupid that you can’t insert a hyperlink. What were they thinking of???

By: Syncing Google Calendar with Entourage 2008 | Blog on a Stick

Syncing Google Calendar with Entourage 2008 | Blog on a Stick — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:35:06 +0000

[...] I’ve made the switch from Thunderbird to Entourage 2008, one of my missing features is the ability to sync with Google [...]

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:41:27 +0000

If anyone knows how to work with Outlook meeting requests flawlessly in Mail.app, I’d be interested to hear it.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:07:39 +0000

Haven’t noticed that yet. But it does drive me crazy that I can’t insert a hyperlink on some text. Grrrrrr

By: ptackbar

ptackbar — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:12:22 +0000

Does it not drive you crazy that Entourage 2008 does not remember window positions for composing, replying and reading (when not using the preview pane) mail messages?