Thursday, 26 January 2006
Entourage Mail to Mail
I'm considering dumping Entourage Mail in favor of the standard Mail application in OS X. Here's why ...
If someone leaves a response to one of my blog entries, my blog software sends me an e-mail with a bunch of information about the response. The e-mail also contains links to do things with the response, for example, to delete the response. In Entourage Mail, they show up as hyperlinks after the text that's supposed to be the hyperlink. It makes for an ugly looking e-mail message. I don't want to see hyperlinks. I had chocked it up to the fact that it was my software crafting some weird HTML e-mail, but I'm using standard libraries with no weird HTML. And, if I look at those response e-mails in OS X's Mail application, everything looks fine. Furthermore, I've seen spam e-mails that have embedded links that show up correctly. A security precaution on Microsoft's part? Probably. But, again, spam e-mails with embedded hyperlinks show up correctly. I rest my case.
As this is the only Microsoft application I use on a daily basis under OS X, it seems silly to keep it around. I've got the Office v. X suite, but that's really only for PowerPoint and maybe, on the rare occasion, Excel.
I've already devoted too many cycles to looking at forums as to "why" this might be the case. So far, I've come up with no solution.
Hyperlinks displaying as hyperlinks? Is that too much too ask? Apparently yes. It seems such a trivial reason to dump Entourage Mail, but you've got to draw the line somewhere.
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