Mac Email Recommendations

[Burwood]

I'm looking for recommendations please. I've used Entourage for years. It's very old but good. I need to migrate to something more up to date. I use POP server and my email is managed so i don't need a storage plan

Anyone used Spark?

I'm not so keen on Outlook or AppleMail or Google
I don't mind paying

TIA

[Bikerjon]

Spark, Postbox and Airmail are all good alternatives to the usual options. I've used Airmail for years with a G-Suite acct as the two work well together. Couldn't ever use a POP acct these days though!

[Burwood]

Bikerjon said:

Spark, Postbox and Airmail are all good alternatives to the usual options. I've used Airmail for years with a G-Suite acct as the two work well together. Couldn't ever use a POP acct these days though!

It's what my Site host use. And it's not great.What is the best IMAP?

[Burwood]

the issue I'm having is entourage is old, but works well. I like to keep emails. 100k inbox and similar sent. It throws a wobbly now and then and the database falls over needing a rebuild. It's so large coupled with my iMac only being 8GB (i should upgrade it) it's been taking 1.5 days to perform the task which is ridiculous. And on occasion it gets to the end of that and says 'failed' meaning you start again!

Ive just realised I've been involved in an email exchange for 10 days and maybe 100 emails have gone back and forth and the sender has replied to the original so you can imagine the size of the damn thing. That is what is causing Entourage to pack a sad. I keep getting the rainbow wheel of death.

[tog]

I've used Fastmail as an IMAP mail provider for some years and am very happy with them. I use Apple Mail as the desktop client. People say its not perfect, but it does all I need and holds email going back to 2002 (imported from Eudora!).

[jeremyc]

Apple Mail works fine for me, and I keep all my email.

Otherwise take a look at Thunderbird which is free.

[Burwood]

thanks all. As I have AppleMail and Outlook i'll start using Mail in parallel and see how i like it

[Bikerjon]

Burwood said:

Bikerjon said:

Spark, Postbox and Airmail are all good alternatives to the usual options. I've used Airmail for years with a G-Suite acct as the two work well together. Couldn't ever use a POP acct these days though!

It's what my Site host use. And it's not great.What is the best IMAP?

Gmail.

Rebuilding an entourage database makes me shudder to be honest! I've seen people who have lost years of mail because the database wont rebuild/no backups etc. These are usually the same people on a rubbish POP3 service of yesteryear that deletes mail from the server after 30 days.

[Burwood]

I just installed a RAM Cleaner/monitor. I only have 8gb. Mac OS gobbles 2-3. It tells me I'm running on fumes.




The Cache may need clearing but that wipes all my 'stuff'

Im no techie. will adding another 8GB of Ram probably solve my issue

and this

Edited by Burwood on Thursday 28th February 19:16

[Burwood]

So my theory is i do something a bit heavier, yeah like sending a large email (WTF) and Ram goes to zero. Or am i missing something?

[Murph7355]

Your site host will probably support IMAP too. Ask them

Running such large mailstores like that is asking for bother. Put stuff into archives and try and keep them sensibly sized. You can still search for stuff in them. No need to have thousands of emails in a single folder.

I preferred Apple's Mail and Calendar apps to Entourage when in a Mac. Outlook on a PC is better than both IMO (never tried it on a Mac - switched back a bit ago now).

Is your machine running slowly? If so, more memory might help... But you need to figure out what it is using the memory first...