Entourage will slow down some with huge mailboxes, both on launch and also on clicking the particular folder to display the messages. But it’s on the order of seconds, not minutes.
As for the delete behavior, I’d love to know the answer to this one too. There’s probably a script that could be written, but that strikes me as being a little to cumbersome for such a common action.
I have just made the switch from Emailer 2.03 to Entourage, and I’ve tried to avoid sending a bunch of posts to the list, but I do have one problem I can’t figure out:
Is there any way to make the default delete behavior different? When you delete an e-mail, read or not, from the pane it then selects the next e-mail above. I would like it to select the e-mail below as my next target, as I do a lot of subject based deleting from top to bottom. Is there any way to change this behavior?
Also, as someone who just retired my Emailer database of 81 folders and 209,784 messages mostly because it was too slow (I only “start over” every 18 months or so, and this time I have chosen Entourage for good, but I still love Emailer!), how does Entourage perform when it gets in the 6 digit range for the number of e-mails in it’s db? What about searching? Emailer took 10 minutes to open on a 500 MHz G3 with 80 MB given to Emailer (mostly so that once you resorted the resort was always remembered), several minutes to resort each folder the first time if you accidentally clicked on “To/From,” and searching was also very slow at high numbers of e-mails as well.
Thanks,
-Lewis
