Best of Mac: The Very Best Email Program On Earth.
The killer application for Mac users isn’t Safari. It’s not a browser. It’s not Photoshop. It’s email. Email is what more users use more of than any other application.
We may browse the web longer, but email is more critical for most users. Here’s a look at the absolute best email program on earth.
First, let me say that a few of you may disagree with my conclusion, but hear me out. Email, like browsing, is a near intimate experience for most Mac users (Windows users, too). Reliability and dependability are givens..... (excerpted).
9 Reader Comments
Scott Flora said:
It’s the little things that I don’t like. I hate the light purple color in Entourage. Is there anyway to change that? Also why when I delete mail from the list why does it go back up to the previous message? Why not the next one like in outlook? I have been trying to figure out a way to fix this. It’s stupid to have to arrow down then hit enter to read the next message.
John G. Adams said:
You bring back McCarthyism. What an idiot. What do you know about the “average user” that Apple does not? If you have trouble with Apple’s Mail then you should not be allowed to use a Mac. Why? Because you’re an idiot. Millions of Mac users run Google’s Gmail on a Mac. Why can’t you? Yahoo! doesn’t work on Mac Mail unless you pay—Yahoo! Doofus!!
Your “Mac User Card” is hereby revoked because your IQ remains at two digits.
liam mccarthy said:
The only thing I can say about apple mail application is that it is absolutely and totally hostile to user i.e NOT USER FRIENDLY.Like many many Apple applications and such it is just useless to the average user.Sorry Apple but You need to be user friendly and you simply are not..
But after three years of all the worthless applications on my mac I have to say Mac mail application is completly nonfunctional unless you buy a mac account.
I have a gmail account and a yahoo account and nothing would ever get them on to mac mail application..Sorry Apple that you hate the world so much you cant be compatible with it and do something for progress..I have so much to say about this but the best is to simply never buy another mac again.
Dave said:
I have nightmare experiences with both Entourage and Mac Mail - the smtp connection is awful - sometimes it works most of the time not - the keychain keeps dropping my passwords and the ports (110 in and 587 out for Comcast) keep changing - I haven’t found a decent email program since I switched from Win XP and Incredimail - yes, Incredimail - never had a problem with it and I wish they would create one for Mac!!!
KC said:
I am an avid Mac user. Having been using mac since before the colored bubble iMac came out(which I still own one of). I use a PowerBook now for all my work. I’ve used Apple Mail in the past and just thought it was a basic and very boring program. I switched to Entourage because it allowed me to have a schedule keeper and a few other things. Entourage one day, after a long stint of use decided it would crash and never open again. I had to reinstall the program. I thought I was smart and saved all my emails to reload. The program wouldn’t work. I lost tons of information and contacts. I then switched to Thunderbird. Which has been my best option to date in apps. Thunderbird also has a few quarks about it and many times acts like it’s going to repeat what Entourage did. That sent me searching for something else. Still looking for that program that can manage 4 email accounts with flexibility and not delete my info!!!!
Doc Mood said:
Update: After trowling through the net and trying Eudora and a bunch of others, I finally went back to the Apple Mail application. It was a toss-up between Entourage and Mail. I tried VERY hard with Entourage but it crashed continuously when trying to synchronise with my several thousand emails and I never got it to download them all fully. It was also cumbersome to use. Mail on the other hand is pretty good once you get used to it although it doesn’t support HTTP mail, only IMAP and POP and the support on both of these is pretty good. It also has some advanced features but on the whole is a good, solid, no-nonsense email app.
Teresa said:
I’m a recent (February) switcher to Mac from Windows. I’m looking for the best email app for Mac (I like the ability to send/receive in HTML). Your article when you selected Entourage is dated 2005. Anything better yet? Thanks.
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Louis Halpern (Reputation) said:
You’ve persuaded me to try an Microsoft application! I’m currently trying to migrate my whole team to the cloud and away from Microsoft but am deeply dissatisfied with Mac Mail & Google’s email interface…
Here goes nothing
(BTW - thanks for the post)