Why don't you use the versioning features in Office??? -- Eric Hildum
> From: Remo Del Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:41:01 -0700 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Rebuilding E2001 Database > > On 7/23/02 3:00 PM, Paul Berkowitz deftly typed out: > >> (Which is one of those things that is actually easier with Entourage's >> "monolithic" database than with email clients that automatically save >> attachments to disk. With that system you'd have to go looking for >> everything twice to do delete things - the message and the attachment. To >> make sure that you weren't deleting attachments you actually wanted to keep, >> you'd have to check one by one. Unless there were a really sophisticated >> linking mechanism that let you "delete all linked attachments of the message >> you are about to delete?" which might be pretty slow.) > > I love Entourage's way of doing things for two additional reasons. First of > all the exact source of the message, as it was sent to me, is stored in the > database, allowing much easier debugging of email problems. As my company's > mail admin I have to do this a great deal (particularly since I have to pry > that piece-of-crap QuickMail Pro out of everyone's hands just because they > are too scared to learn a new interface!). Secondly, it allows me to track > down files I've sent to others. Not just the file itself, but the exact > revision of the file that I sent since the one on my drive may have gone > through a number of revisions since having been sent. It's been a life saver > for me. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
