A great review of Entourage 2004

Entourage is superb in keeping out spam

I’d been using Apple’s built-in OS X e-mail software ever since I switched from Windows to a Macintosh a few years ago. But Mail, as good as it is - and it’s good in a lot of ways - turned out to be no match for the rising tide of spam, scams and regular e-mail coming my way. I was spending too much time trying to get Apple Mail to recognize more spam and not enough time replying to the dozens upon dozens of legitimate letters I get every day.

So I decided to forgo my inbred suspicion of all things Microsoft and installed the latest version of Entourage, the heavy-duty e-mail-and-calendaring software that Microsoft includes in Office 2004. It proved to be a smart move.

Entourage is much better than Apple Mail at filtering spam. That’s obvious the first day you run it. The amount of spam e-mails that slipped through to my inbox dropped from about 80 a day to less than 10 when I switched to Entourage. That number should be even more impressive when I point out that I had been training Apple Mail to spot spam for a long time, yet had done no similar training for Entourage.

That’s excellent!