[Arbernaut]

I have a question: I love Mail and GyazMail's ability to search within emails, something Entourage's lame search capabilities cannot do. Does anyone know if Spotlight can search Entourage's emails, or is this just a pipe dream?

I'd consider moving from Entourage were it not for two things: one, Mail's butt-ugly buttons whic I find an offence to Mankind, and secondly I have about a hundred rules and associated folders that I doubt that Mail would be able to replicate. (see below for just some of my mail rules...)

[phantomo]

From what I've gathered so far, Spotlight doesn't search Entourage's emails yet.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Arbernaut

Mwahahaha

Is that how you do your spam filtering ?
Dude, you seriously have to look into slicker options.

Mail's built-in Spam filter is good. Or try adding something like SpamSieve
http://c-command.com/spamsieve/

-t

[Arbernaut]

Those aren't my spam filters: those are my contacts which get filtered into separate folders. My ISP has excellent Spam filtering, I also use Entourage's spam filtering and a mail rule that catches the few that manage to sneak through!

[GENERAL_SMILEY]

I have the same problem, not least because every time I've tried to import things into Mail in the past it has failed to properly deal with address details, signatures, etc...

Personally I'd like to get rid of Entourage, in fact the entire Office suite, (I guess I have to keep Excel).

Anybody else made a successful transition, any hints?

[techtrucker]

I read somewhere (wish I remember where) that it's official that Spotlight doesn't support Entourage's database format, and that Apple and MS are working on it...

[OreoCookie]

How about switching to Mail? You can get rid of the ugly buttons ... and the search capabilities are ... well, it's spotlight for ya

[eggman]

Originally Posted by Arbernaut

I have a question: I love Mail and GyazMail's ability to search within emails, something Entourage's lame search capabilities cannot do.

I can't imagine what you are talking about. Entourage has always been able to search within email messages. If you hit Cmd-F to search.... and hit the "More Options" button. Then as your "Criteria", select "Message body" from the first drop-down menu, and "Contains" from the second... and enter your search string in the text box.

Works like a charm.

[Arbernaut]

Originally Posted by eggman

I can't imagine what you are talking about. Entourage has always been able to search within email messages. If you hit Cmd-F to search.... and hit the "More Options" button. Then as your "Criteria", select "Message body" from the first drop-down menu, and "Contains" from the second... and enter your search string in the text box.

Works like a charm.

REALLY???

I thought I knew that app inside out!! How could I miss that feature?

I feel like such an idiot. Thanks for the tip!!

[mitchell_pgh]

I've found that people VERY anal about spam should simply create a WHITE LIST. It's an auto reply to every UNKNOWN email with instructions on how to be added to their KNOWN email (white) list.

Example: Your new buddy emails you and then receives an auto-reply that says "I'm sorry, but due to the large volume of spam email I receive, I block all unknown email addresses. If you wish to send me email, please send me a message with the following subject "ADD ME TO YOUR EMAIL LIST" if you have any questions or issues, please feel free to give me a call."

Just set up a rule that allows email with "ADD ME TO YOUR EMAIL LIST" in the address field.

I'm not that anal about it. I simply go through my junk box every few days to see if anything of importance was accidentally thrown in the trash.

[Arbernaut]

The problem with auto replies like that is that it alerts every spam sender to the fact that the email address they used (yours) is a live email address.