On 13/5/04 7:47 am, "Kirk McElhearn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/13/04 5:20 AM, "Mark Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just upgraded to Office 2004 and I had a bit of a problem with Entourage. >> I have about 20 email accounts that all get a tremendous amount of mail. I >> have each account set up to leave the mail of the server for 14 days, this >> way I can check my mail when I am out of town and still get the mail on my >> main computer at home. So I perform the upgrade and then check my mail. Much >> to surprise my computer was flooded with thousands of redundant messages >> that I had already previously retrieved. > > I had a similar problem - after rebuilding my database, Entourage displayed > a bunch of mail that I had deleted already - it all showed up in my inbox. > Weird... I wonder if they are related? Did you rebuild your database? Could > it be old messages that were in your database that got "displayed" after > Entourage imported it? If you hadn't rebuilt your database before upgrading, > Entourage might have found all those messages and somehow reset them as not > read... > Again, this is expected behaviour after a complex/advanced rebuild. An IMAP account that uses a 'mark for deletion' deletion model will have those messages re-appear after a rebuild. To avoid this you need to 'purge' any mail folders with deleted mail before rebuilding (not always possible if the database is corrupt!) or use a 'move to deleted items folder' model for deletion - this can be set in the preferences. -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) Seen the Entourage FAQ pages? - Check them out: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html> -- 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/>
