When setting up the email account, it gives the option but so far have been unable to complete set up

To get rid of a color set it to white.
Also, you can create a set of label colors.
Very easy.

j

Perhaps you should go back to windows?

Why should I try to import 8ooo mails a day not being able to read more than 80 ! And what for is outlook good than to import viruses not to talk about the normal running problems or how to get started on xp … Man I hope to get 50 yrs old the next few weeks. I wouldn´t have got that old with a gatesmachine ( it takes 5 min get my heart disrythmed and the pc to bag for shutdown ) and will neverever pay a dime for what they call software ( even I neverever would try to get that stuff without paying for it ).
But – keep on with plug & pray. I´m too old for that stuff::: Best wishes from where the wind blows

I read a lot about NEO and apparently is quite good.

Thanks,
Omar.

Thank God I found your blog here, you save me a lot of trouble. But I can’t figure out how to get the icons from the window environment to my OS, so I don’t have to see the windowXP desktop anymore!

Allen

Reading about the other tools mentioned here, I decided to try and switch over to mail from Thunderbird to test different solutions out, accomplishing as well better quicksilver compability, which has been an itch for me for a while.

I am feeling the Mail.app slowness pretty hard on importing some 8000 messages, but I aint very high volume on a normal day and so we will see if it won’t be workable.

Have anyone experience or comments on “Inbox”? Perhaps beside the choice of name for the app …

http://midnightbeep.com/

I wanted to ask you how the whole switch to Outlook is working out for you?

Is there any speed issues or stability issues running Outlook via Parallels. I know that initially you said it ran at near native speed, just wanted to check with you a few weeks down the track. I use Entourage, but have considered the same route as you (mainly to make syncing to my PDA/phone a little easier).

Anyway, just thought I would check to see how you are getting along with the switch.

I’d look at switching back to Outlook the moment that I can update my Google calendar from within Outlook Calendar.

On a different note, where did you get that sexy hat, Ryan?

Next thing you’re going to tell me there’s no right-click button either. :p

43Folders has some good tips for archiving your messages and relying on spotlight to retrieve what you need. Also MailTags have been useful – a plug-in for Mail.

I moved to the Mac 6 months ago for a simpler life. From desktop to laptop. My life has been simplified and I cringe everytime I load up Parallels to test on PC.

I wonder if the next version of Entourage would suit your needs.

Thanks for the post.

Jeff

Quality mate!

Google Apps for your Domain is one of the best solutions and one that’s the fastest in performance, plus, available any pc that you’d want to use, anywhere you might be.

I used Outlook from 2000-2004 and one of the main issues with Outlook is it’s speed once you have a lot of information stored on your .pst file (the file that stores everything), plus, it’s bloated when it comes to working with it.

Searching your mail is quite slow, hang-ups are frequent (or untimely) and you have a huge problem with viruses (on the pc, not sure about the Mac, never used one!). I really don’t have the time to work with Outlook anymore – it ruins your time, over time.

Instead of flags, you can tag your mail in Google’s Gmail and that way it makes recalling emails more relevant, at least a bit more web2.0ish. Each mail can also be linked to an event which helps integration with Google Calendar to set reminders.

All this for no fee at the moment, unless you upgrade to their paid version and require around 10GB of storage per mail account. The standard you’d get is 25 mailboxes at 2GB each – not bad for office work at all.

My entire company uses Google Apps for your Domain and we’ve been on Google Mail first and now Google Apps for your Domain, for the past three years!

Yasser

S

I use my mail as my storage file. Plus I travel a quite a bit and so the myriad of hosted email apps (gmail etc) without syncronization to a local store do not cut it for me. Further, without the security of everything being on both my exchange server and my local machine I would have to go to some other potentially complicated backup soulution. So my I cannot use an online version and the size of my email is huge. I have successsfully moved everything to the mac side, but the problems comes when I try to syncronize. It appears the Mac client does not have knowledge of which emails have changed so it checks is one of them individually. So even when I just have a handful of new messages it takes an hour or two just to connect and syncronize. This is a nonstarter. I have tried entorage with my excchange server baskend. I have tried moving the backend to Firtst Class. I ha vetried innumerable Mac clients, with a IMAP connection. None work for squat. I have been told the problem is a lack of a decent MAPI client (which is why I tried Frist Clas, but the local app was so bad, I couldn’t make the migration

So my email remains in a windows prison, despite the fact that I like almost all of the other Mac apps better

BTW, if you use outlook, consider a small app that sits on top of Outlook called NEO (Nelson Email Organizer) It essentially automatically tags and allows very efficient search on all of your email. It works for me and I love it

BTW

This is exactly what I do for my Quickbooks company file which I run in Parallels. Handybackup is useful as you can get it to zip up the file, do incrementals etc.

J

10 XP licenses, 10 office 2007 licences all the servers etc etc. Stop subscribing and your licences exprire but I can think of no better way of kitting out your entire office with XP and Outlook2007 (+Excel etc) so that everyone is on the same page and you can really maximise Outlook’s benefits.

You get quarterly updates sent through the post with all latest software updates and releases (it include Expression set of tools as well as for some reason these are not classed as development tools). A total bargain for your business.

https://partner.microsoft.com/UK/40016455

I can highly recommend Daylite, it’s a Mac app which blows Outlook (and iCal/Address Book) out of the water. It syncs every which way, does loads of neat stuff for managing projects, leads and more…

You really need to check this out before you get too committed to Outlook and it’s infamous disappearing data.

http://www.marketcircle.com/daylite/