I¹ve almost solved this problem using Sync Services, iCal, Address Book and
.mac.

First, get a .mac account. $100 per year, but worth it for lots of reasons.

Second, set up Entourage to sync with iCal and Address Book using Sync
Services.

Third, ³share² and/or ³publish² your calendar, contacts (and bookmarks)
using System Preferences for .mac.

Now you can access and change calendar and contact info from your MacBook
(or any computer, if you ³share²), and Entourage will be kept in sync.

I find this works most of the time; I use it to keep calendar, address books
and bookmarks in sync across ten Macs and to check from any computer
anywhere. Once in a while the information won¹t update properly from iCal to
.Mac, so I have to do a forced resync from System Preferences or an
³unpublish/republish² sequence in iCal. But it¹s the best solution I¹ve
found so far.

I¹m continually tempted to just switch to the Apple apps just to make this
all easier and reliable, but I know I¹ll miss a lot of the features of
Entourage.  

Hope this helps.
Barry


on 8/26/07 8:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> From: tbats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:55:03 -0600
> Subject: How you handle Calendar with IMAP
> 
> I recently switched all my POP accounts to IMAP for the first time. I did this
> so that when I travel with my MacBook, my mail will stay up-to-date, without
> having to constantly move the MUD folder back and forth each time.
> 
> However, I think I just realized something: that the only thing that will stay
> up-to-date is the emails and folders. Tasks and Calendar and Address Book have
> nothing to do with IMAP, and changes made on one computer remain on one
> computer. Since I am constantly adding Tasks and Calendar items and new
> Contacts, I think I will still need to move the MUD folder back and forth
> between my home Mac Pro tower and my traveling MacBook. Do I have this
> correct? 
> 
> If this is the case, how do you traveling folks deal with this? Should I just
> go back to POP, since there doesn¹t seem to be any advantage to IMAP in my
> case? How do you all stay synced up with more than one Mac? I guess I¹m not as
> clear on the advantages of IMAP as I originally thought.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas on this.
> 
> Scott



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