Entourage & new Mobile Me (formerly .Mac) & Sync Services

[Michel Bintener]

If I do change over to IMAP in Entourage and decide that for whatever reason
I don't like it, is it a royal pain to change back to POP?

Not at all. You will need to recreate your POP account in Tools>Accounts and
then delete or disable the IMAP account. That's it.

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

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[Diane Ross]

Not at all. You will need to recreate your POP account in Tools>Accounts and
then delete or disable the IMAP account. That's it.

You can actually have both the POP and IMAP account listed in Accounts.Just
deselect the one you don't want to use. This way it's easy if you ever want
to switch.

 

[drbob]

Can someone from Microsoft please give us an update on whether Entourage 2008 will have all the push capabilities we have been reading about? Apple's apps (iCal, etc.) will have seamless synching between MobileMe, the apps (on a computer), and the iPhone 3G (which I will be getting). Will we be getting this same automatic synching with Entourage? If so, how soon? Otherwise, I'm sure there are plenty of other Entourage users like myself who are seriously thinking of switching to Apple's apps (but would rather stick with Entourage, if the same capabilities exist). Thanks.

 

[wg]

I use Entourage and just got the Mobile Me update over the weekend. E-mail syncs fine between "the cloud," my iMac and my macBook. But calendars and contacts are note, even after assuring that all the Entourage preference are checked for sync.

Any suggestions for fix to calender and contact issues?

Thank you,

wg

 

[Michel Bintener]

Calendar evens, tasks, and contacts need to be synched manually with the
MobileMe server, or you will need to specify an interval in which changes
are automatically synched. Make the necessary changes in the MobileMe
section of System Preferences (Sync tab), and see if your data is now
synchronised with the server.

I use Entourage and just got the Mobile Me update over the weekend. E-mail
syncs fine between "the cloud," my iMac and my macBook. But calendars and
contacts are note, even after assuring that all the Entourage preference are
checked for sync.

Any suggestions for fix to calender and contact issues?

Thank you,

wg

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

*** Please always reply to the newsgroup. ***

 

[Mark O'Brien]

I'm finding that IMAP is the way to go lately, for the reasons you mention
below. I view my mail on several computers, and using IMAP generally works
well to keep on those devices in sync.

I tried IMAP with my .Mac account when I first got my mac.com address
(anybody remember iTools???). At the time I was using Office 2001 or X,
IIRC.

The problem I had was with emails disappearing. I would be scrolling through
my inbox, and I'd see a subject line or from address I wanted to read, and
as I scrolled to it it sometimes just disappeared and the next email below
opened up! The missing message was never to be found again - not via
webmail, not in the trash - not nowhere, not no how, as the Cowardly Lion
might put it.

After seeing this behavior repeated multiple points, past the point that I
blamed it on my imagination, I gave up on IMAP and went back to POP. I just
set up Entourage on my MacBook (and its predecessors) as my "master" client,
deleting messages from the server when the MacBook downloads. The Apple Mail
client on the MacBook and various clients on other computers are set up to
leave mail on server, so when I get to my MacBook I can still download that
"master" copy and access it whether online or not.

Now that I have an iPhone, I'm thinking of trying IMAP again, as I find
myself leaving the MacBook behind more than I used to. I'm going to trust
that whatever caused the disappearances before has been corrected by
Entourage updates, OS X updates, fresh new computers/OS X/Entourage
installs, or some combination of the above. That, plus I don't recall
anybody else reporting the same problem.

Mark
Office 2008 12.1.1
OS X 10.5.4
MacBook 2GB Intel Core Duo (Early 2006)

 

[Diane Ross]

Now that I have an iPhone, I'm thinking of trying IMAP again, as I find
myself leaving the MacBook behind more than I used to. I'm going to trust
that whatever caused the disappearances before has been corrected by
Entourage updates, OS X updates, fresh new computers/OS X/Entourage
installs, or some combination of the above. That, plus I don't recall
anybody else reporting the same problem.

There are reports of mail missing with MobileMe and it does not even involve
Entourage. Apple even sent out a message that it "regret to report the
loss" of about 10 percent of messages received between July 16th and 18th,
too.

 

[hugh Jass]

Of all the things I don't like about Entourage, I'm actually finding that it
does better at IMAP than its PC cousin, Outlook, or even the Firefox mail
reader. It's not great, but it's the least buggy of all the mail programs
I've tried so far in that regard.