Comments on: Entourage to Thunderbird Overnight

By: Macconvert

Macconvert — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

You don’t mention any comparisons to OS Mail. You don’t mention how to import Mail address book into Thunderbird.
It is actually quite difficult and time consumming. That is the main reason I have not switched to Thunderbird.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

True, but vCard support is in the works for Thunderbird, which would make migrating Apple’s Address Book easier. When that will happen, I don’t know…

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I’d love to use it, but doesn’t make sense when trying to work in an Exchange environment. Of course, neither does using Entourage. : )

Spread the word, we NEED an OS X MAPI e-mail client!! Someone PLEASE do some reverse-engineering!

By: David

David — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I thought Entourage 2004 DOES have Exchange support. No?

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Entourage does have Exchange support, Thunderbird doesn’t. Also, you can convert your Address Book to a file Thunderbird can import with this or this.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I’d love to switch to Thunderbird from Entourage, but I have a bunch of different mailboxes, plus filters (rules) and accounts set up in Entourage. Switching would require exporting every mailox as an mbox (not all that bad) but also would require setting up all those email accounts and rules by hand. And I’m not quite ready to switch to something still in beta. Once it’s released, I may very well just bite the bullet and spend the several hours it will take to switch over.

By: The K-12 Tech Guy

The K-12 Tech Guy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Switching from Entourage to Thunderbird

For quite a while now I’ve been interested in switching from Entourage to Thunderbird for my mail client on my Mac. The difficulty has been that I store a lot of mail in folders in Entourage and could not figure…