Entourage's mail behavior vs. Outlook's

[TommyWillB]

Funny... The official answer from Microsoft seems to be that you should "Use Outlook Web Access":

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/support.aspx?pid=exchange

[Morgan19]

Funny... The official answer from Microsoft seems to be that you should "Use Outlook Web Access":

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/support.aspx?pid=exchange

How do you figure? Going by their requirements and suggestions, I'm on 10.3.5 and an exchange server. Following their path, I can go:

- Need to access Exchange server
- Don't need more than email, scheduling, and calendar
- That leads to Entourage 2004

You just sound bitter. In any case, Entourage is working fine except for this one thing... I'm not exactly throwing in the towel.

m19

[TommyWillB]

Also note you can set up what Entourage does on Startup... You can have it do a full send/receive or not. If you choose not to, maybe it won't do the remote synching (downloading) either... On my Entourage X, this setting is under Tools > Schedules. If I remeber correctly "Send & Receive All" is one of the default schedules. (I've long since deleted mine...)

How do you figure? Going by their requirements and suggestions, I'm on 10.3.5 and an exchange server. Following their path, I can go:

- Need to access Exchange server
- Don't need more than email, scheduling, and calendar
- That leads to Entourage 2004

You just sound bitter. In any case, Entourage is working fine except for this one thing... I'm not exactly throwing in the towel.

m19

Since you need to have control over where mail is saved I'd say you DO "need more than email, scheduling, and calendar". I also assumed you did not want to use VPC or Remote Desktop (which assumes you have a remote WinXP box)... That's how I got to Web Outlook.

...and YES, I'll admit to hating the Web Outlook. So I guess I probably do come off as bitter on that topic.

Note that after 2 years of accessing my Exchange email using VPC with the full Outlook (Exchange) client running under Windows 2000, I finally reformatted my PC @ work, installed WindowsXP, and now use the MacOS X Remote Desktop client. This is the coolest telecommuting setup I've had in the 8 years. No more issues with slow VPC and slow DSL... Now everything runs as fast as my PC at work! (I use Entourage for personal email and only as a backup for Exchange email...)

[Morgan19]

Also note you can set up what Entourage does on Startup... You can have it do a full send/receive or not. If you choose not to, maybe it won't do the remote synching (downloading) either... On my Entourage X, this setting is under Tools > Schedules. If I remeber correctly "Send & Receive All" is one of the default schedules. (I've long since deleted mine...)

So it sounds like you're saying the Send & Receive schedule is what's actually downloading (locally?) the messages? As a test, I tried turning off al schedules, sending a mail through a web-based email to the Exchange account, and it looks like it came through ok. After I got the email, it started synchronizing all the folders even though sync'ing has been turned off. Hmm.

Something else I'd noticed while poking around for all of this... Our global address book doesn't seem to be working. At least, my address book only has me in it so I assume it's not working. From what I've read it looks like Entourage doesn't like an Exchange address book? Any thoughts on that?

m19

[StarBuck]

Yes Entourage does keep a cached local copy of the imap folders from the exchange server unlike outlook 2001.

You will find this folder in your microsoft users data folder in ~/Documents.

The GAL works just make sure you don't have to authenticate to the exchange box.

I like Entourage 2004 but its missing the most important service public calendars.

You can get evolution up and running under x11.app which supports the public folders and its free.

[Morgan19]

The GAL works just make sure you don't have to authenticate to the exchange box.

You can get evolution up and running under x11.app which supports the public folders and its free.

What? I'm not sure what these two mean.

m19

[TommyWillB]

Our global address book doesn't seem to be working. At least, my address book only has me in it so I assume it's not working. From what I've read it looks like Entourage doesn't like an Exchange address book? Any thoughts on that?

Go to the New Account > Directory Services preferences... Set up a directory service using the name of your Exchange server.

To use this, open up the Directory Services window. Do a search, and then drag/drop the user to your new email TO field.