Is there a way to archive or move important emails to personal folders, as
in Outlook? I am trying to clean up my emails, but not lose some of
them...any ideas in Entourage? Thanks, robert
You can move them off the Exchange mail store into the Entourage
database simply by moving them into any of the folders under the 'on my
computer' hierarchy.
This retains the mail in Entourage, but not in the Exchaneg mail store,
so these mails will not be available in Outlook for windows, if you
also access the same exchaneg account that way.
It also means that the mail is not so easily transferable. Mail is
stored int eh Entourage database, which can only be read by Entourage,
and no third parties. the database contains a copy of ALL your mail,
regardless of where it came from, so to transfer the database to
another machine meands transferring everything.
You can archive out an MBOX file of mail by simply dragging it from the
Entourage folder listing to the desktop (or any other finder window).
This will effectively export the mail in this folder in a format that
can be read by many mail applications, but it is a static copy that
needs to be imported - it cannot be opened and the mailread, as you can
in Outlook for windows and a PST file.
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