accessing e-mail messages at home

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kluverbucy

I have a mac at home and one at the office. I noticed that if I use
entourage to access my new e-mails at the office, I can no longer have
access to these emails if I want to respond to them at a later time-
say after I return home that evening. Is there a way I can read the
new e-mails at work but then have the same emails show up at home since
I haven't accessed the new emails on the home computer?
 
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Diane Ross

I have a mac at home and one at the office. I noticed that if I use
entourage to access my new e-mails at the office, I can no longer have
access to these emails if I want to respond to them at a later time-
say after I return home that evening. Is there a way I can read the
new e-mails at work but then have the same emails show up at home since
I haven't accessed the new emails on the home computer?
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In your work Entourage, you need to select to leave messages on the server.
Open your Account and under the Options tab, select to leave messages on the
server. This will allow you to have access to the messages for Entourage at
home.

You'll need to decide how you want to set your home Account for leaving
messages on the server. Note, this is one option in backing up your
messages. By leaving on the server for x days it will give you backup to
your latest messages in case there is a problem.
 
M

Minuteman Press Wrexham

I have a mac at home and one at the office. I noticed that if I use
entourage to access my new e-mails at the office, I can no longer have
access to these emails if I want to respond to them at a later time-
say after I return home that evening. Is there a way I can read the
new e-mails at work but then have the same emails show up at home since
I haven't accessed the new emails on the home computer?
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Open your account settings (found in tools menu), click on "edit account"
then "options", then select "leave copy of message on server". Do this to
each computer you use. You should be able to receive your messages on both
computers then.

Hope that helps.

Mike
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Open your account settings (found in tools menu), click on "edit account"
then "options", then select "leave copy of message on server". Do this to
each computer you use. You should be able to receive your messages on both
computers then.
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But note that most ISPs don't allocate very much server space for POP
accounts. After a week or three your "mailbox" on the server will be full
and people writing to you will get their mail messages bounced back
("mailbox full") and you won't know about it unless someone phones you to
tell you. So you have to be careful to delete all mail from the server
regularly once you're sure you've received it in all locations (tricky - do
it _immediately_ after switching computers). But usually you have no way of
knowing when the server is "almost full" - you have to guess.

You can usually pay for more server space from your ISP. But then you're
much better setting up the account as IMAP, not POP. Find an ISP that lets
you do this.

I have two IMAP accounts for my work and personal mail. Bu I use my ISP's
POP account for mailing list messages - where I get a lit of messages. I
don't really care if I get all those messages on my PowerBook, although I
like to get recent ones there when I'm on the move. So I set Entourage on my
PB to "leave messages on the server". But on my home desktop G5. I don't.
That way, when I get home, everything downloads and clears up the server, so
it never gets full up, and I get a full record of messages there. Bit not on
my PB. I could never manage that way for important work and personal
messages, and fortunately have IMAP fore my work and personal accounts.
There are some services offering free and cheap IMAP accounts (fastmail, I
think), and mac.com is also a good bet. You can still maintain your regular
ISP for actually connecting to the internet (you have to) and can also
maintain a POP account there for some uses, or redirect mail (from your
ISP's website is best) automatically from there to your INAP account.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
 
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James Wintraub

I just configured my Entourage X to receive Gmail (via POP). The account
shows up in my folder list and the emails are being received just fine. The
problem is, after I read a Gmail email in Entourage, it automatically
disappears from the Gmail folder and goes to the Inbox folder under the "On
My Computer" section. This doesn't happen with my Hotmail account which is
also set up as a POP. Any idea how I can fix this problem?
 
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