On 6/7/02 6:53 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Are you trying to use MLM this way with an IMAP account? The MLM won't work
> properly with IMAP in Entourage 2001.I thought the limitations were mostly
> to do wit moving messages to folders, but may apply to reply behavior too.
> IMAP support, including MLM, is much improved in Entourage X.

Yeah, I'm using IMAP, so thanks.

> You have seriously misunderstood the so-called dangers of doing an Advanced
> Rebuild. Mostly, all you lose are the links, such as the "This message is a
> reply to one of yours. See Reply." If you do have IMAP,. you'll lose the
> cached copies of the message bodies, but you can just download them again
> from the server (i.e. click on them to read them). If you think some of them
> may have been removed from the server (how?), just option-drag these
> messages, or entire folders, to local folders to make local copies before
> you do the rebuild. Same for news messages you want to make sure you keep.
> usually none of this is necessary. You lose categories of these server
> messages too. You won't lose any saved local data.

Well, if you say that there's no danger to my locally-saved data, then the
danger at least must be small, which makes me happy. I did do an advanced
rebuild a while ago which lost a lot of messages in local folders. The
impetus for the rebuild had been that message text was showing up in the
wrong messages. I'd open one e-mail and have lots of text from e-mail in
completely different folders. Many (or maybe all) of these messages were
lost. Plus, Entourage 'help' warns you that some data may be lost in an
advanced rebuild, without specifying which type of data; hard to glean from
that that they only meant links. The vast majority, over 99.9 percent of
e-mail is stored in local folders, so that's the only thing I'm worried
about. I'll probably try an advanced rebuild based on your recommendation.

So, would you say it's not necessary for me to adhere to my meticulous
schedule of dragging out individual mailboxes to the finder to back up all
my messages? Do you think simply backing up the Entourage database is
enough?

Also, I can't see a difference in dragging versus option-dragging my IMAP
messages to local folders. What's the difference supposed to be?

Does this list have an archives? I couldn't find one.

Mike

> Paul Berkowitz


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