An Introduction to Microsoft Entourage Email Client

An introduction to Microsoft Entourage Email Client. Entourage was an email client, developed by Microsoft for Apple’s Mac OS 8.5 and Higher version of Mac OS. Entourage was first released by Microsoft in October 2000 as a part of Microsoft office 2001. Entourage last version was released in 2008 as a part of Microsoft office 2008. Entourage was replaced in October 2010 by Outlook in Microsoft office 2011 for Apple’s Mac OS.
Now we are going to discuss Microsoft Entourage Function which was use by Mac OS Clients.

Microsoft Entourage Functions

Mail: Entourage Mail was managed multiples account in one inbox. You can use any account for sending emails but all your emails were stored in one files system, which was useful to backup your emails. Entourage Mail was provided you to import messages from any other email systems. Entourage import PST files as well as CSV files and convert it into MBOX files. If you are using Entourage mail you share your messages with other members in your company.

Calender: Entourage Calendar has to responsible for managed your events and meetings. The calendar has a reminder system which reminds your events and meetings by an email alert. You can schedule an event or meeting and share your calendar event with selected members in your company and they are able to access your calendar event.

Address Book: Entourage Address Book has to responsible for managed your contacts. You can add a contact from emails as well and able to send a message from an address book. You can sort your contact by A – Z and Z – A. You can search contact by name. You can add or edit a contact in address book. You can create new address book and manage multiple address book.

Task List: Entourage Task List has to managed your Task List. Its provide single task with a single project. You can add notes and attached task with calendar.

Project Centre: Entourage Project Centre has to manage your project and help to do more. You can create the new project and organize existing projects. Entourage project centre has organized documents, emails, contacts, dates, tasks, and other files under one roof. Entourage Project Centre has integrated with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Microsoft Entourage File Extension

Microsoft Entourage was using .reg file extension, its contains data of Mail messages, Contacts, Notes, Tasks, Calenders, Events, and Projects. In Entourage’s menu has an option to ‘import and export’ command which is responsible for creating and importing files.
Entourage was different from outlook by having .mbox files extension. Entourage emails stored in MBOX files format. Entourage stored emails in MBOX which is more secure and reliable. Entourage Mail was provided you to import messages from any other email systems and convert it into Entourage’s files format. Entourage import PST files and convert it into MBOX files system, as well as you can import CSV files and convert it into MBOX files by Entourage.

In Conclusion

After reading “Introduction to Microsoft Entourage” article you would have an idea about Entourage mail client. Entourage was used in Mac OS till 2010 and its was a good desktop based system with some required changes. Entourage was managed all your emails account in one inbox and send and receive emails and all data was stored in one system which will use for backup data. After conclusion you would understand if some require changes was done in Entourage mail client in 2008 version it would be present today!