Moving on from Entourage
We’ve been using Microsoft Entourage 2008 as our email client on our iMac Late 2015 with Sierra. Entourage, however, seems to be dying. We’ve looked at Outlook 2016, which lacks a lot of valuable features, so we don’t want to upgrade to it. Should we use Stellar Phoenix Entourage Repair and carry on using the app, or is there something better? So long as you use a copy of your Entourage mailboxes, the repair utility you mention may fix your immediate issue. If you’ve already tried to get Entourage itself to repair the mailboxes and it has been unable to, that’s your only serious option.
Microsoft Outlook is quite different, and there’s no other mail client which is an obvious replacement for Entourage’s rich features. Many users were dismayed when it was replaced with the cut-down Outlook.
There’s a wide choice of mail client apps available in the App Store; visit their makers’ websites for demo versions and further information about each. Many are also offered outside the store, making them much easier to try before buying.
For converting your current mailboxes, try Emailchemy from weirdkid.com/emailchemy, which supports the conversion of database, .RGE and cache files to formats that can be imported into almost any other mail client.
The longer you postpone making the move to a new client, the greater the chances of Entourage failing and leaving your mailboxes completely unreadable.