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Entourage 2008 wont update Exchange Server based inbox anymore
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- Category: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
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- Written by angusf
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What a crock Entourage 2008 continues to be. I have to use it for clients whos email is only available via Outlook Web Access or MAPI (Entourage doesnt support MAPI, but it does, on a good day, with a following wind, support OWA).
But then it just stops.
"It must be me I thought – its 2009 after all, mail clients havent 'just stopped' since cc:Mail"
Its not me. Entourage has a big ugly database that can it seems decide its had quite enough of its role of storing, indexing and managing emails. There are some fixes, all ugly to my mind.
1) Select the Inbox thats not working anymore, right click to get to the folder properties, click 'empty cache' restart Entourage and wait a *very* long time while it rebuilds
or
2) Hold down Option starting Entourage and rebuild, compact and generally maintain your database.
You have to ask yourself why in 2009 its necessary to do this. Its bordeing on arcane, and I certainly cant ever remember in recent times having to do this kind of thing with mail.app or with Outlook.