Well, first I have a question. What do you mean by " When I try to work my
IMAP mail offline..." the essence of IMAP is that all messages are on the
server, not on your computer. When you check for mail, Entourage quickly
gets _only the headers_, unless you have chosen a setting or a rule to
download the entire message bodies to the cache.
So you can only work offline with IMAP messages if you have first downloaded
the messages. Since you have turned off all server options, and presumably
don't have an IMAP rule to download either, you are getting only the
headers. Thus, when you click on a message, Entourage politely asks you if
you want to connect in order to download it, so you can read it. (if you
don't want to read it, you wouldn't be clicking on the message, right?)
The server option for the account "Always download complete message bodies"
will - I think - work with your Send & Receive All schedule to download the
complete messages when you choose to run the schedule. Then you can go
offline, and the messages will be available to you when you click on the
message header, with no need to connect again, so you won't be asked. This
is similar to POP downloading (except that the message is also still on the
server, of course). If it doesn't work, you could make an IMAP rule in
Tools/Rules/IMAP for "All messages" to "Retrieve from server", but I really
don't think this will be necessary if you check the "Always download
complete message bodies" box on Tools/Accounts/IMAPaccount/Options. You can
tell from the "status icon" - the little yellow envelope icon - next to each
message. If it's a full envelope for every new IMAP message as soon as the
Send & Receive schedule has run, then it's already downloaded and you can
work offline. If it's a partial, fragmentary envelope icon, it's not fully
downloaded and you should make that IMAP rule.
--
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From: Francois Boulet <
[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:02:07 -0500
Subject: Re: Entourage and IMAP offline
Thanks,
All my server option are already unchecked. So I guess my next step is to
talk to my sysadmin. I use Entourage X to connect to a Groupwise server
through IMAP, is there anything specific I should ask/mention to him?
Francois.
Le 28/10/03 23:30, dans BBC48261.462D6%berkowit@spoof_silcom.com, « Paul
Berkowitz » said:
Entity Francois Boulet spoke thus:
When I try to work my IMAP mail offline, Entourage keeps asking if I want
to
connect. Isn't there a way to work offline?
Yes, in the "Entourage" menu select "Work Offline".
Unfortunately the feature doesn't seem to work.
On the contrary. It works. What you might want to do id go into
Tools/Accounts/[your IMAP account] and turn off LiveSync and maybe all
"server Options" - although I have norm problem with any of these myself. It
will depend largely upon the IMAP server.
I tried it recently and
Entourage crashed and took my IMAP setup with it. I had to rebuild all my
folders and rules.
Others have said it's a bad idea also.
What "others"? Who? Thousands of people use this function every single day.
