Many, many thanks to Jim, Allen, and Diane for your suggestions. Amazing to sit here in a tiny village in central Scotland and get advice from such helpful people somewhere out there!
Christine (my assistant) and I have spent the morning working to add Categories to the address book. I already had lots of categories but they were not all attached. I checked on the Preferences and I did have all three checked to automatically connect categories and contacts and messages. We've run into two complications. When we add a category to a name and then create a rule, that does not seem to change the current situation with existing messages, even when I select the item and choose Apply Rule. Is there a way to do that? Lots of contacts have no recent messages showing, despite dozens of recent messages from them in the Inbox. Is there any way to connect these messages to the address book? That all worked so smoothly in CAT, the database I used for ten years before I finally moved to Microsoft. All suggestions welcome. Thanks again, Walt > From: Diane Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 19:47:17 -0700 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Simplifying and Clarifying > > On 5/31/03 1:05 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a lot of folders and could stand more simplification, too. But >> recently I went away from having a folder for every person (I had several >> hundred like you), and began grouping mail by category: Coworkers, Work >> Contacts, Friends, Family, etc. I have always had my incoming mail filed by >> rules, and definitely prefer that approach. I have a "Lists" folder with a >> subfolder for each mailing list I'm on (more than a dozen). > > I would like to second using categories for your rules. Just check out the > Rules section for how to set up. It's important to include "not from a > mailing list" to sort your Buddy or Friend's mail. :-) > > <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/rules.html> > > My Main folders: > Talk lists > Newsletters > Buddies > Work > Family > Info/Tips (use this to store mail with good suggestions) > Junk > > One subfolder under the Inbox is for subscription info. I highly suggest > everyone have a folder where they keep subscribe/unsubscribe info. > > At this point it might be easier to start with a clean identity and organize > it. Keep the old identity as an archive. It's easy to switch identities to > check for mail. > > -- > Diane Ross > MVP Entourage (MVPs are volunteers) > Entourage Help Page > <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
