Never tried Entourage or the email app from OpenOffice. I have tried the other windoze like apps from OpenOffice (on PC's at work), and I find them incredibly like the microsoft stuff. I'd make my first port of call OpenOffice. It's open source (free), so you may as well give it a try. If it doesn't suit her needs, then you can look at the other reccommendations. > From: ftf at mac.com > To: rnorthouse at wi.rr.com; g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:09:35 -0800 > Subject: Re: [G4] "MAIL" Replacement > > On Nov 29, 2009, at 7:23 AM, Rich Northouse wrote: > > > For years I have been trying to convert my wife from her Windows PC > > to a > > Mac. Two months ago I finally succeeded. I fixed her up with a nice > > G5 (1.8 > > GHz, 300 gig hard drive, etc running 10.5 ). Now I have a problem -- > > she > > absolutely hates Apple's MAIL program. She would like to have her MS > > OUTLOOK > > back. I searched for a Mac version of Outlook without any luck. > > > Microsoft Outlook Express, a free program for the Macintosh platform, > was discontinued some years ago, when Microsoft introduced Entourage > in its Macintosh Office Suite. It is similar to Outlook for Windows, > but has more features. Anyone who is used to Outlook should feel > comfortable with Entourage. > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 _________________________________________________________________ Add your Gmail and Yahoo! Mail email accounts into Hotmail - it's easy http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/186394592/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g4/attachments/20091129/40407fa2/attachment.htm>