What is the best mac email application?

I was gutted to find my MS Office Student Pack doesn't come with MS Outlook, and at the moment I am using this 'Mail' program, but it is very limited and has no options whatsoever in comparison to MS Outlook.

I seen that MS Outlook 2001 is available to download from the MS Website so if there's no other decent email apps (Surely is?) I will just get this?

Thanks
Liam

What options is Mail missing? It's a very complete POP/IMAP email client. The only other I really am impressed with on the OSX platform is Mozilla Thunderbird.

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I was gutted to find my MS Office Student Pack doesn't come with MS Outlook, and at the moment I am using this 'Mail' program, but it is very limited and has no options whatsoever in comparison to MS Outlook.

I seen that MS Outlook 2001 is available to download from the MS Website so if there's no other decent email apps (Surely is?) I will just get this?

Thanks
Liam

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Entourage?

Mac Mail.

For years I have used Opera, with XP as well as various Linux flavors and used it initially after coming to Mac. I have since switched to Mac Mail.

Liam said:

I was gutted to find my MS Office Student Pack doesn't come with MS Outlook, and at the moment I am using this 'Mail' program, but it is very limited and has no options whatsoever in comparison to MS Outlook.

I seen that MS Outlook 2001 is available to download from the MS Website so if there's no other decent email apps (Surely is?) I will just get this?

Thanks
Liam

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Entourage is the Office for Mac answer to Outlook. As far as Mail missing features that Outlook has, can you tell me what you think those are? I honestly feel as far as an email app goes, Mail is better than Outlook.

mail is fine. it has everything that outlook has !

Well - it doesn't look as cluttered and junky as outlook... so it must be missing something!

I used Entourage for some time and had a couple of problems so used googlemail and have now set up to use Mail again. The only weird thing with Mail is that it looks vary sparse to the Outlook I use at work which has a calenday and tasks rolled into it.
Mail works well and I prefer having the seperate programmes but its just odd at first when you spend all day in front of a Dell.

What is Mail missing? I've always thought it was great. And it will be even better when Leopard gets here.

That was my first stupid post...Im still getting used to a non Windows platform and couldn't work out why the 'Mail' application had no options at the top of it's window...and after your replies I realised I must be missing something...

I'll get used to all the options being at the top of the monitor and not the application window itself!!

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That was my first stupid post...Im still getting used to a non Windows platform and couldn't work out why the 'Mail' application had no options at the top of it's window...and after your replies I realised I must be missing something...

I'll get used to all the options being at the top of the monitor and not the application window itself!!

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Dont worry about it, it took a while for me to get used to the windows when I did I am much happier with the Apple method.