Re: deleting emails from server for Exchange accounts

On Sep 6, 4:13 pm, Noah <noah.lea...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 6, 2:12 pm, Diane Ross <di...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



On 9/6/07 11:30 AM, in article
1189103400.136634.7...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Noah"

<noah.lea...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Using Entourage 10.3.6 on OS X 10.4.10 PPC I cannot figure out how to
remove emails from the server while keeping a local copy. The options
which are normally available for IMAP and POP accounts to leave a copy
on the server (or not) are no where to be seen for Exchange accounts.

AutoArchive Exchange Account to "On My Computer"

Move all e-mail older than 60 days from your Exchange account folders to
archive folders within the "On My Computer" folder tree.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/exchange/autoarchive.html>

Note: the time 60 days can be changed.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

Thanks Diane. It's disappointing that MS left this up to external
scripts. I believe with Outlook, users can browse the archived w/o
having to re-import them in like in Entourage.

I'll have to tweak how it the script functions but boy does it irk me
that I have spend time working on code in order to address an issue
that every exchange user needs to deal with.

If there was simply an action I could set up a schedule for that would
take emails older than x days and "move" them to "On My Computer" then
delete from Exchange then this would not be a big deal. That's just
one way that would have made sense. (At least to me.) I understand
that "Entourage" is not "Outlook for Mac" and all that, but its been
years and year of suffering from bad design choices all in the name of
the belief that Mac users are different than a PC user and therefor
need different ways of doing things.

... ok I'm starting to fly of the handle a bit. not called for.

Anyway, Thanks Diane for pointing to the Applescript solution.

the AutoArchive script doesn't work for me as is. it created the
folders in On my Computer, but didn't move any emails to it. I have
emails since April in my Inbox so there should be plenty to find. The
script finished in about 5 sec.

.

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