Entourage 2004 Email Questions

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badlydrawnboy

1. Is there a way to view both my .Mac an POP accounts in the inbox?
By default, Entourage separates them and I have to click on each
mailbox to see the mail.

2. When I try to delete a message, I get an annoying dialogue box
asking me to confirm whether I want to permanently delete the message.
This is a pain. Is there any way to change this so the message is
immediately deleted?

Thanks,
Chris
 
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Barry Wainwright

1. Is there a way to view both my .Mac an POP accounts in the inbox?
By default, Entourage separates them and I have to click on each
mailbox to see the mail.

2. When I try to delete a message, I get an annoying dialogue box
asking me to confirm whether I want to permanently delete the message.
This is a pain. Is there any way to change this so the message is
immediately deleted?

Thanks,
Chris
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You presumably have your .mac account set up as IMAP - you can also access
it through POP mail, so that the mail will be downloaded to the inbox.

Unfortunately, you can't alter an account from IMAP to POP, but you can
create one from scratch. The server is 'mail.mac.com', and the sending mail
server 'smtp.mac.com', authentication needs to be turned on in the 'advanced
sending options'.

If you remove the IMAP account from the 'Send & Receive All' schedule, you
can leave the account intact and just collapse the server icon in the folder
list - that way, it will always be available at the click of a mouse if you
ever need the IMAP functionality.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

You presumably have your .mac account set up as IMAP - you can also access
it through POP mail, so that the mail will be downloaded to the inbox.

Unfortunately, you can't alter an account from IMAP to POP, but you can
create one from scratch. The server is 'mail.mac.com', and the sending mail
server 'smtp.mac.com', authentication needs to be turned on in the 'advanced
sending options'.

If you remove the IMAP account from the 'Send & Receive All' schedule, you
can leave the account intact and just collapse the server icon in the folder
list - that way, it will always be available at the click of a mouse if you
ever need the IMAP functionality.
Click to expand...

Note that if you start using mac.com as a POP account, you may end up
removing all mail from the server as you download it. That could be a good
thing if you have only one computer - you'll never fill up the server
mailbox again. If you have more than one computer and want to access mail
from both of them, make sure you leave the setting "Leave mail on server" on
Options page of the account checked. I believe it is checked by default to
avoid unexpected issues like this. So if you have only one computer, you
could go there (Tools/Accounts/Mail/mac.com (POP)/Options) and uncheck it.
If you ever switch back to IMAP you'd start off from an empty server.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
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