[fmcpherson]

Originally Posted by bigkingfun

Does Entourage work well for this or did you have any issues? One of the things that has been holding me back from using my Mac Mini more is the fact that my email and Outlook data is all on my Windows notebook. If I could keep the two in sync, I could actually use my Mac a lot more (which would be a good thing )

I access my hosted Exchange account using Entourage 2004 on a Mac PowerBook, Outlook 2003 under Windows XP, and various Windows Mobile devices.

I have had no problems sending or receiving email using Entourage 2004 and the Exchange server. I will note that I was not able to get the previous version of Entourage to access the Exchange server, so I emphasize Entourage 2004.

There are a couple of quirks between Entourage and Exchange. One big one is that Tasks do not transfer. This appears to be a similar problem that exists in transfering tasks between Windows Mobile and Exchange. Hopefully SP2 will fix the problem. (Basically, I sync my Pocker PC tasks with Outlook 2003, which in turn is an Exchange client and that gets my tasks to the Exchange server. However, those tasks never come down from Exchange to Entourage. Likewise, tasks that I enter in Entourage never make it up to the Exchange server.)

Another quirk that I find is with meeting requests that I synchronize from my work Windows PC to my Pocket PC. Then I go home to my home PC, synchronize with my Outlook/Exhange client, and sometimes the meeting request originator changes from someone else to myself. When this happens and I come back to work and sync with my work Outlook/Exchange combo it creates a duplicate. My guess is that in this case I am doing something that Microsoft didn't intend to happen, that being that I am syncing the same Pocket PC with two different Exchange servers using Outlook 2003 as a client. I am not sure when the problem happens, and I haven't figured out if it is repeatable, so its possible that Entourage is actually messing up the meeting request when it syncs down from Exchange to Entourage.

[fmcpherson]

Originally Posted by bigkingfun

Does Entourage work well for this or did you have any issues? One of the things that has been holding me back from using my Mac Mini more is the fact that my email and Outlook data is all on my Windows notebook. If I could keep the two in sync, I could actually use my Mac a lot more (which would be a good thing )

I access my hosted Exchange account using Entourage 2004 on a Mac PowerBook, Outlook 2003 under Windows XP, and various Windows Mobile devices.

I have had no problems sending or receiving email using Entourage 2004 and the Exchange server. I will note that I was not able to get the previous version of Entourage to access the Exchange server, so I emphasize Entourage 2004.

There are a couple of quirks between Entourage and Exchange. One big one is that Tasks do not transfer. This appears to be a similar problem that exists in transfering tasks between Windows Mobile and Exchange. Hopefully SP2 will fix the problem. (Basically, I sync my Pocker PC tasks with Outlook 2003, which in turn is an Exchange client and that gets my tasks to the Exchange server. However, those tasks never come down from Exchange to Entourage. Likewise, tasks that I enter in Entourage never make it up to the Exchange server.)

Another quirk that I find is with meeting requests that I synchronize from my work Windows PC to my Pocket PC. Then I go home to my home PC, synchronize with my Outlook/Exhange client, and sometimes the meeting request originator changes from someone else to myself. When this happens and I come back to work and sync with my work Outlook/Exchange combo it creates a duplicate. My guess is that in this case I am doing something that Microsoft didn't intend to happen, that being that I am syncing the same Pocket PC with two different Exchange servers using Outlook 2003 as a client. I am not sure when the problem happens, and I haven't figured out if it is repeatable, so its possible that Entourage is actually messing up the meeting request when it syncs down from Exchange to Entourage.

[boback]

you forgot to mention that with the exchange server it won't sync messages in other folders. that's a huge limitation for me because i have rules in my outlook that move my messages to the appropriate folder. my pocket pc then can't see them. sucks. hopefully they'll fix it with the update.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by boback

you forgot to mention that with the exchange server it won't sync messages in other folders. that's a huge limitation for me because i have rules in my outlook that move my messages to the appropriate folder. my pocket pc then can't see them. sucks. hopefully they'll fix it with the update.

I've heard about this problem but never experienced it myself. I always thought they did in fact sync, but there was no unread notification so you didn't actually see them? So when you do an Exchange ActiveSync, only the Inbox is updated? That doesn't seem right because you can move a message and it will update the folder that you moved the message into.

[boback]

i think what you discribed works. you can on your pocket pc move an email to a folder and it'll sync later to your desktop outlook. but you can't have your desktop move a message (ie. using rules) and then have the pocket pc sync to the contents of that folder.

if someone knows how to get around this, i'm all ears.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by boback

but you can't have your desktop move a message (ie. using rules) and then have the pocket pc sync to the contents of that folder.

Desktop? I thought we were talking about hosted Exchange here...yes, that's definiately a limitation of the Pocket PC with regard to synching against Outlook on the desktop. Though can't you sync against all email folders and set the threshold to 3 days or something to keep email to a minimum? Would that work?

[boback]

i use both. i have it setup to sync with the exchange server, as well as with my outlook on my desktop. if i'm away from home and i click active sync, it'll download messages only in my inbox and not the subfolders (even though there are new messages in the sub folders). there is no setting for syncing all email folders. just how many days i want. it really sucks. you'd think the same software company would completely synchronize all their software. i end up haveing to use the browser to go to a webmail site and check my other mail and it's difficult to read messages in that format. i'm hoping 5.0 takes care of that.

[chscof]

Jason,
Please outline the process of changing from pop3 to imap. I am afraid of losing my .pst info. I want to upload my current pst file to my email server. I use imap with my treo using chattermail for email and outlook on my laptop configured with pop3. I want to use imap on both devices and since all my saved emails are on the laptop I need to upload the info first. My server is a hosted website liquid web.
Thanks

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by chscof

Please outline the process of changing from pop3 to imap.

Well, assuming that you have the IMAP account configured, and the POP3 info is already inside your Outlook PST file, it should be as simple as opening up the IMAP folder tree and dragging and dropping your folders one by one from your Outlook folder tree into the IMAP folder tree. It will likely take a while, and you'll want to make sure you have enough space on your IMAP account, but it should work.

[Jason Lee]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

Well, assuming that you have the IMAP account configured, and the POP3 info is already inside your Outlook PST file, it should be as simple as opening up the IMAP folder tree and dragging and dropping your folders one by one from your Outlook folder tree into the IMAP folder tree. It will likely take a while, and you'll want to make sure you have enough space on your IMAP account, but it should work.

works good. that's what i do but in reverse to back up my imap mail to my pc at home.

[chscof]

Thanks guys,
I've moved a couple folders, it takes awhile. I would like to delete a few of the folders on the server trying to make it look exactly as my outlook pop folder view. I am not allowed to delete some folders "The server responded: 'DELETE failed: Can't delete mailbox Inbox.Drafts: no such mailbox'." The server I am using gets cluttered with folders for the various web mail tools such as Neomail, Horde and so on. Would it be best to just subscribe to a exchange server service if cost is no issue but organization is big.