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New iphone and Microsoft Entourage for Mac

  • 19-08-2009 08:37PM
    #1
    unclebill98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,813 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    A fairly basic question. Going to take the plung and get the new iphone. I use Entourage for my emails and I'm wondering can I use the iphone to receive the same emails from the accounts I've set up in entourage?

    Is it easy to do?


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  • #2
    cornbb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    It depends on what the accounts are? There are "easy" preset options to set up MS Exchange, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL or Me accounts, and you can probably set up pretty much any other account if you know the settings (usually just username/password/email address will do). Yes its a pretty foolproof process.


  • #3
    kevteljeur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭kevteljeur


    I have this exact set-up with several email accounts. I find that the trick is to set-up your email account as either IMAP or POP3 in Entourage (most modern accounts can handle both) and IMAP in your iPhone. iPhone's Mail seems to have much better performance with a decent IMAP account, and it means it's leaving the storage to the server to handle. The downside is deleting messages from the iPhone - it doesn't seem to like doing that with IMAP accounts.

    In your Entourage account, get it to 'leave a copy of each message on the server' in Tools > Accounts > [Your account] > Options. I set it to 'Delete messages from the server after 14 days' but you can change that to more or less - it means you won't fill up your mailbox on the server too much. I also set it to delete messages from the server after they've been deleted locally, because clearly I don't want them any more, particularly with the likes of spam.

    This process works for most modern mail clients too.


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  • #4
    thecommander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭thecommander


    kevteljeur wrote: »
    n your Entourage account, get it to 'leave a copy of each message on the server' in Tools > Accounts > [Your account] > Options. I set it to 'Delete messages from the server after 14 days' but you can change that to more or less - it means you won't fill up your mailbox on the server too much. I also set it to delete messages from the server after they've been deleted locally, because clearly I don't want them any more, particularly with the likes of spam./QUOTE]

    If you setup your Entourage to work on IMAP too the all folders are synced. That way, if you send a mail on your iPhone, it will appear in sent mails in Entourage aswell.

    No need for leaving copies on server etc like above.


  • #5
    kevteljeur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭kevteljeur


    thecommander wrote: »
    kevteljeur wrote: »
    n your Entourage account, get it to 'leave a copy of each message on the server' in Tools > Accounts > [Your account] > Options. I set it to 'Delete messages from the server after 14 days' but you can change that to more or less - it means you won't fill up your mailbox on the server too much. I also set it to delete messages from the server after they've been deleted locally, because clearly I don't want them any more, particularly with the likes of spam.

    If you setup your Entourage to work on IMAP too the all folders are synced. That way, if you send a mail on your iPhone, it will appear in sent mails in Entourage aswell.

    No need for leaving copies on server etc like above.

    Sure, you can do that too - but only if you want to explicitly keep all your mail on the server. I have the set-up I do because historically I've kept many email accounts on the go, and they were POP3 when I first used them. The OP could certainly keep it all IMAP and that would make it simpler...



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