On 8/6/10 1:53 AM, "Lindsley Williams" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would encourage comments on whether this is a good time to spend >a lot of effort to edit many "rules" that will, I assume, become obsolete >should that user, and others of us, elect to convert to MS Outlook for Mac >when the new MS suite is launched later this year and, in general, some >discussion of what will happen to "our" Entourage email databases and >records in the coming year or two. I recall, not fondly, the sense of >loss >and frustration when earlier email clients, then favored and widely used, >were supplanted by others, "Claris" being one of these. I've renamed this thread to reflect these questions. Rules should work the same in Outlook as they do in Entourage. If MacBU did not make upgrading from Entourage to Outlook an easy process, it would be a poor business decision. Your database will be just like all databases in the past. Only that version of Entourage will be able to open them. You can import a database if supported, but you cannot decide at a later date go back and open an old Identity without the application installed. If still supported you could import. So, what to do with old data? Put it in a format that can be used by multiple applications like the .MBOX format. The Entourage archive (.rge) file is Entourage specific and I suspect that Outlook will be able to import those as well. Mail on the other hand would not be able to import a .rge file. Individual emails and contacts are generally safe, but not a good format for transferring a large number of items. Another option is to import your Entourage data in Mail as an archive source. I'm not sure how it will be handled, but you should be able to test Outlook for Mac and then after the test period, go back to Entourage. Just like with the current demo, you select to "leave on server" if you have a POP account so it can be downloaded into Entourage too. It's easier to "test" if you have IMAP. Hope this helps! -- Diane -- YouTalk mailing list List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
